After serving as a minister of crime, he sought to deliver humanity from vice by returning to ancient principles. His believed in the "five relationships," including that of the citizen to the ruler, which became the basis of later political philosophies. He did not write anything himself, entrusting the documentation of his beliefs to Xunxi and Mencius. For 10 points—identify this founder of an eponymous Chinese ethical and religious doctrine.
After serving as a minister of crime, he sought to deliver humanity from vice by returning to ancient principles. His believed in the "five relationships," including that of the citizen to the ruler, which became the basis of later political philosophies. He did not write anything himself, entrusting the documentation of his beliefs to Xunxi and Mencius. For 10 points—identify this founder of an eponymous Chinese ethical and religious doctrine.
After serving as a minister of crime, he sought to deliver humanity from vice by returning to ancient principles.
{Confucius} [or {K’ung}-fu-tzu; or {Kongfuzi}]