Why Confucius?
The Master said, I have 'transmitted what was taught to me without making up anything of my own.' (VII 1 - 123)
If Confucius never 'made up anything of his own,' why is he always the credited one? Was he the last student of the teaching he passed on that was able to actually understand and live through the teachings? Was there something else in his teaching method or in his life that made him more worthy of recognition than the others that taught before or after Confucius? Why any name at all, why not just assign the teachings to a group of people, or is Confucius really just the personified version of the group of people who taught these things?
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