The Confucian preachment of morality, as in Plato, was predicated on the theory that the earthly way is the distorted shadow of the heavenly way; that the true pattern of temporal civilization is the mirror reflection of the eternal order of heaven. [1] Ganid elaborated with Jesus a summary on Confucianism when they were in Alexandria. [2]
Confucian precepts, while perpetuating the best of the past, were somewhat inimical to the very Chinese spirit of investigation that had produced those achievements which were so venerated. [3] The Zoroastrians had a religion of morals; the Hindus a religion of metaphysics; the Confucianists a religion of ethics. [4]
See also: UB 92:6.6.