Character: A. I. Kobzev

Ancient Chinese society did not know polis democracy and the type of philosopher generated by it, consciously detached from the empirical life around him in the name of understanding being as such.

Confucius and the first ZhU philosophers saw their main task in the theoretical understanding of the historical connection between society and the personal fate of a person. From the very beginning, Confucius' policy was to convey,

The first historically reliable creator of philosophical theory in China was Confucius, who realized himself as an exponent of the spiritual tradition of Zhu - educated, intellectual scientists, whose name later became the terminological designation of Confucians.

In any developed society, it is philosophy that generally reflects in itself all spheres of spiritual culture and, for its part, plays the role of a universal methodology for them. But it itself cannot fail to follow a certain metaphilosophical formal methodology as the most general theory of the correct acquisition and expression of true knowledge.

The sociocultural genotype, which underlies the mechanism of reproduction of civilization, which guaranteed its adaptive and transformative power, its regenerative functions that brilliantly manifested themselves at the right time, began to form at the beginning of the first millennium BC. e. The concept of heavenly predestination that arose at that time expressed the principle of ethical determination in the management of people (the right to own the Celestial Empire was taken away from the vicious ruler and handed over to the owner of the highest virtue).