用英語說中國文化藝術 第25期:思想教育和文化之孔子的影響
Confuclus’ Influence
Confucius is the Most famous sage of China. More than any other single man, he, through his followers, produced the principle basis of the Chinese tradition of ethics and political theory that had thus deeply influenced Chinese society and culture. Over the centuries, this influence spread also to Korea, Japan and other countries. Confucianism is wholly considered more of an ettiical philosophy than a religion. However, it is debatable if the system founded by Confucius should be called a religion, it prescribes a great deal of ritual, but little of this can be interpreted as worship or meditation in a formal sense； and Confucius occasionally made statements about the existence of other-worldly beings that sound agnostic to western ears.
孔子是中國最知名的聖人。比任何其他人都出名，他通過他的追隨者，產生了中國傳統的道德觀和政治理論也因而中國社會和文化深受其影響。幾個世紀以來，這種影響還波及到韓國，日本等國家。儒家思想是完全被認爲比宗教有更多的道德觀念。但是，這也備受爭論，如果由孔子創立的制度應該被稱爲一種宗教，它規定了大量的儀式，但很少可以解釋爲崇拜或冥想在正式的觀念中;而孔子偶爾發表的關於神聖生命的存在的陳述在西方人看來是不可知論的。
