Kong-Fu-Tse, or Confucius, the most celebrated Philosopher of China Product:Greetings card with men talking round a

with men talking round a table in the foreground

which taxed it as a conventional car

exposing the teeth

Plate 17 from the book Icones rerum naturalium

Kong-Fu-Tse, or Confucius, the most celebrated Philosopher of China Product:Greetings card with men talking round a'Kong Fu Tse, or Confucius, the most celebrated Philosopher of China', c1729. According to Chinese tradition, Confucius (551 479 BC) was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought. His teachings, preserved in the Analects, form the foundation of much of subsequent Chinese speculation on the education and comportment of the ideal man.