Confucian

Examples

• All

• Both Bell and Bai are explicit in their view that Confucians ought to support some humanitarian interventions.

  Academic text (2016)

• We cannot know exactly what was in the mind of these early Confucians.

  Academic text (2016)

• But even among these "New Confucians," there were also different views.

  Academic text (2018)

• Modern Confucians should be even more pessimistic.

  Academic text (2016)

• But contemporary Confucians need not accept fanciful tales.

  Academic text (2016)

• Understanding this, modern Confucians ought to be all the more wary of attempts to justify war on humanitarian grounds.

  Academic text (2016)

• For all practical purposes, I maintain, early Confucians opposed offensive wars, including those supposedly waged for humanitarian causes.

  Academic text (2016)

• And I recognize that Mencius, like other early Confucians, was prone to hyperbole and exaggeration.

  Academic text (2016)

• First, Bai acknowledges, "Early Confucians urged caution against wars, including those waged for purportedly humanitarian reasons" (Bai 2012, p. 47).

  Academic text (2016)

• Kang Youwei, author of The Great Unity and one of China's last great Confucians, advocated eugenics at the turn of the century as an instrument of narrowly national renewal.

  Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

C

Confucianist

vsConfucian

1 8.8

A person who follows the teachings of Confucius about proper behaviour and respect for family

has identical meaning but uses the -ian word form

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology