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Confucius' Analects is a description of a social protocol -- the goal is to teach how to behave in society

The social protocol itself is "Consummate Conduct"

It differs heavily from Classical Western writing in that...

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If it was just a "moral philosophy" framework (a la Seneca) large portions of the Analects would not be dedicated towards concepts such as "Consummate Conduct" (仁）or "Filial Piety" (孝). Confucianism is much more comfortable with unbalanced individual power dynamics between people because it all balances out

One of the ways that Confucius approaches all of this is thru a lens of relationships between things, ourselves and others - as what the focus of our efforts go to

The question is not "what is this thing" nor "how should I be" -- because boundaries / certainties are not in abundance as they are as in Western thought

Classical Antiquity: Socrates / Plato / Aristotle sets us out on -- it is a path of inquiry into "Natural Philosophy" - an attempt to answer the question, what is the nature of things? 

In the Roman Era, the attention shifted towards how one should behave period (Moral Philosophers) Epictetus, Seneca and so forth