Confucius,
The Analects
Confucius, like Plato and Socrates, was a real person. He
lived in the 6th
Century BC, more or less from 550-470 BC, in NE China. This was just
after the Zhou Dynasty collapsed into the Warring States period. Confucius
lived, in other words, in interesting (which is to say, unstable) times.
