What does it mean to be a good person? How does humanity fit in with the cosmic order? Now what's interesting about Confucius is by his own account, he says that he didn't come up with anything new. It's more of him trying to resuscitate or rejuvenate some of the traditions of the past. Most historians would give him more credit, even though Confucius does look to the early Zhou dynasty for a lot of his inspiration, and he looks to a lot of the traditions of the ancestors. He definitely puts a spin on it, which makes it a very powerful philosophy and arguably religion as we get into this warring states period, and especially as we get into a more unified China under the Qin and Han dynasties. And as we'll see, under the Han dynasty in particular, Confucianism becomes essentially the state religion.