List of Confucianists explained

This is a partial list of people who follow Confucianism, selected for their influence on that belief, or for their fame in other areas.

Early Confucians

• Confucius (孔夫子 Pinyin: Kong fuzi Wade-Giles: K'ung fu-tzu) – founder
• Zisi (子思)
• Mencius (孟子 Pinyin: Meng zi)
• Xun Zi (荀子)

Japanese Confucianism

Family name comes first in Japanese language.

• Fujiwara Seika
• Hayashi Razan
• Ogyū Sorai
• Toju Nakae

Modern

• (b. 1936)
• (b.1946) also known as Go, Chi'ei
• (b. 1949)
• (1910 - 2008)
• Yasuoka Masahiro (Japanese: 安岡正篤) (1898 - 1983)

Korean Confucianism

• Yi Hwang
• Yi I

Vietnamese Confucianism

• Chu Văn An
• Nguyễn Trãi

Neo-Confucians

• Wang Yangming – important Idealist Neo-Confucian.^[1]
• Zhang Zai – pioneering Neo-Confucian.^[2]
• Zhou Dunyi – Song Dynasty philosopher.^[3]
• Zhu Xi – one of the leading Neo-Confucians of the Song Dynasty.^[4]
• Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi also called the cheng Brother's Students of Zhou dunyi works collected by zhu xi ^{[5] [6]}

New Confucians

• Tu Wei-Ming – advocate of "New Confucianism"
• Xiong Shili – founding figure in "New Confucianism"
• Ma Yifu – founding figure in "New Confucianism"

Western Confucians or scholars of Confucianism

• Philip J. Ivanhoe
• Robert Cummings Neville
• Eric L. Hutton

Other

• Wang Fuzhi
• Huang Zongxi
• Gu Xiancheng

See also

• Disciples of Confucius
• List of people by belief
• List of Confucian states and dynasties

Notes and References

1. http://www.iep.utm.edu/wangyang/ Internet encyplopedia of Philosophy
2. http://www.iep.utm.edu/zhangzai/ Internet encyplopedia of Philosophy
3. http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Writings/Chou.htm Kenyon College
4. http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Zhu+Xi Gutenberg
5. Book: Taylor . Rodney Leon . The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Confucianism: A-M . Choy . Howard Yuen Fung . 2005 . The Rosen Publishing Group . 978-0-8239-4080-6 . en.
6. Book: Yao, Xinzhong . RoutledgeCurzon Encyclopedia of Confucianism . 2003 . Taylor & Francis US . 978-0-415-30652-2 . en.