In the article that is brought to your attention, we will talk about the Chinese sage Kun-tzu, whose name usually sounds like Confucius to the European ear. It has long become a symbol of Chinese culture and its achievements, along with silk, paper, porcelain, compass, gunpowder and fireworks derived from it. Confucius is often called the author of the "religion without God", at the center of which is Kun-tzu himself. His teachings are still - with a short break during the period of total domination of Maoism - the basis of both morality and the education system in China, and Confucianism today is one of the most widespread ideological currents, and not only in the East. In our work, we tried to focus the attention of the Reader on those moments, aspects, angles in the doctrine of Confucius that reveal him to us as a person who, through the darkness of centuries, can help you and me in solving the problems that confuse us.