Confuciuss Viewpoints on Leaders

Nguyen Van Y

Abstract: This paper aims at analyzing Confucius’s viewpoints on leaders and requirements for leaders. First, Confucius required leaders to respect and treat his followers with compassion. Second, Confucius attached great importance to the role of morality in the state management. Confucius stressed that in order to obtain political objectives, leaders must exercise self-discipline. Leaders would lead by positive example. When leaders have good moral qualities, they will win people’s trust. Leaders could motivate their subjects to follow the law by teaching them virtue

Keywords: leaders, ethics, moral qualities, capacity, self-improve, self-discipline