Confucius's Analects And The Art Of War

The oldest and most amazing books of Chinese culture is Confucius's Analects and The Art of war. Both books are used to teach others and is full of meaningful philosophy. The Art of War is composed of 13 chapters, which uses the idea of philosophy to observe war and strategy. And surpringly in war there is a moral code to live by according to the art of war. The book, Confucius Analects used teachings to change the future of the people. The theme in this book is qualities that should be desirable in human beings and morality in one’s behavior. For instance, virtue is a moral that is mention throughout the book. The main principles of Confucius in the Analects are Ren known as benevolence, Yi known as righteousness, Li known as rituals, Hsiao known as filial piety. Confucius even introduces the word junzi which means prince or gentleman. He does this to show that people they need to have higher moral character and you don’t have to be royalty to do so. Gentlemen /royalty in this time period was a role model for everyone that guided the rest of society.
He had five fundamental factors of what every general would need to be like or they would be defeated. According to the art of war, a general’s qualities are wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage, and strictness. Time and time again, the art of war suggests what characteristics you should not have in life. For example Sun Tzu talking about hasty decisions and cowardice actions would lead to capture or defeat. Ignorant choices will bring misfortunate upon one’s army. Which are characteristics he felt were bad qualities in a leader should