• Confucian Teaching [Audio/Video/Text]
This video unit on Confucian teachings focuses on the three essential values on which Conficianism rests: filial piety, humaneness, and ritual. Featuring Columbia University professors Irene Bloom, Wm. Theodore de Bary, and Myron Cohen, and Asia Society President Emeritus Robert Oxnam.
••••• Skip to any subtopic in this unit: Three Confucian values Filial piety Ancestor worship Humaneness Ritual consciousness Rituals Reciprocity/The five relationships Man as Social Being The Gentleman Education The Classics Religion/Heaven/Cosmic Order Mandate of Heaven Government •••••

• The Confucian Tradition [Audio/Video/Text]
A video unit on Confucius and the influence of his teachings. Featuring Columbia University professors Irene Bloom and Wm. Theodore de Bary, and Asia Society President Emeritus Robert Oxnam.
••••• Skip to any subtopic in this unit: An introduction to Confucius Confucius and the Confucian tradition China at the time of Confucius Confucius' dates & family background Confucius as advisor to feudal princes Confucius, a scholar and moralist Confucius' focus on the present  •••••