Confucian virtues offer valuable lessons for contemporary business leaders. His emphasis on humility, moral integrity, and benevolence is a beacon for current discussions on ethical leadership.

Responding to common virtues that Chinese people hold, Thomas gives modern-day examples of weaknesses that Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism cannot adequately address or remedy.

Confucius was a Chinese philosopher, politician, and teacher whose message of knowledge, benevolence, loyalty, and virtue were the main guiding philosophy of China for thousands of years.

Confucius believed he had devised a doctrine of virtue that could bring prosperity back to China. The book starts with Confucius “gate-crashing” your wedding. Set the scene for us.

It is just one of the modern attractions in the town of Nishan in Qufu, Shandong province, where Confucius was born in 551 BC ...

Elsewhere in East Asia, Confucian virtues of education, hard work and thrift are often touted as the font of the region’s economic dynamism.

Fourthly, there existed a mutual lack of understanding of Confucian virtues. Lastly, differences existed in the emphasis on virtues—the GP leans towards Eastern values while ESs toward Western ones.