Confucianism focuses on personal benevolence and an ethical, harmonious, but very stratified society. Apart from Confucius, Meng Zi (372–289 BC) and Xun Zi (313–238 BC) also contributed to this school. Confucius was the illegitimate child of an impoverished aristocrat, born during a period of strife between Chinese states. As an adult, he travelled among these states, trying to [...]

The superficial purpose of the hexagrams is divination. But at a deeper level, the Yi Jing is many things: it is a philosophical book that teaches a method of dialectic thinking in a constantly changing macro- and micro-environment; it is a scientific book, outlining principles of astronomy, meteorology and physics; and it is a social treatise on how [...]