4. Salvation. Confucius did not claim to know about this.
5. Retribution. This was not a central teaching of Confucius.
6. Man and the Universe. Confucius referenced the supreme power, and man’s helplessness through sin He who has sinned against heaven has none other to whom his prayer maybe addressed Confucius abhorred the evil in man and promoted the good in man. He left the question of the basic nature of man ambiguous. Mencius and other disciples developed the thought that man is basically good.
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