Introduction Confucius Role of Government

        The Confucius was a politician and philosopher from China, who lived during the period of 551–479 BC. He introduced a political philosophy named as Confucianism, which was quite different from other political philosophies. He came up with an idea of government, where law and punishment was not taken as a part of authority, rather government was supposed to be run on some moral principles. The basic idea of his philosophy was to govern people through the essence of moral example, persuasion and education. This idea believed in a mode of governance where social relationships are based on correctness, sincerity and justice. The overall idea looks great to be followed, but when it is analyzed in the context of real world situations, it does not as applicable as it looks to be. It is hard for any government to manage society without any particular law and a certain criteria of punishment, as it is difficult to force people that they must follow values and principles based on morality. It is true that ethics and morality should be cornerstone of basis of a society, but one cannot run a society only with these ideal rules, rather law and its implementation is also important to conduct the behavior of people living in a society. There are many elements of Confucius philosophy, which can be made part of a government role to manage its conduct, but its full application is also almost impossible[1]. This paper will discuss that Confucius philosophy is very much relevant to better role of government in different ways, so paper will determine important elements of Confucianism, and it will be proved that various aspects of this philosophy can be integrated in ascertaining a better role of government in any given society.