'The Heritage Post'

 “The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for a life.”                                                                                                       -Confucius Confucianism is a philosophy, a set of virtues and norms for human society to develop itself morally, ethically and strengthen politically. Though it emerged in china but it has its extent to other major east Asian countries as well like Korea and Japan from ancient times till now even after modernization.                         Confucius was born in China around 551BC in the state of Lu to a low ranking official. His father is said to be died when he was very young and then he was raised by a single mother. He developed his intellect in fields of polity, poetry and philosophy etc. He was a great thinker, academician and administrator as he held several key posts in Chinese government during his time. The term Confucianism is a western term it is actually called as “Rui

1.  Rene Descartes was a French philosopher. He was a rationalist who relied on reasons as the guide for belief and action. He focused on logic on any act or ideology. Descartes proposed that to solve any question we should divide large problems into small one, this he called as ‘Methods of doubts’. Descartes asked to ground our ideas to our personal experiences and reason, rather than authority or tradition. Descartes believed in self-examination guided by definition, sound argument and clarity of thought could achieve. Descartes believed ion learning from personal experiences in different situations, meeting different people of varied ranks and class. Descartes relied on ‘thinking’, all his ideas and works moves around his famous phrase ‘I think therefore I am’, he focused on one having their own ways of thinking and perspective and suspect the tradition of passing the ideas. Rene Descartes thus, propagated an independent rational vision of existence. In his works like ‘Rules of the