The chapter opens with a quotation from Master Kong Fuzi, also known as Confucius:
"Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves." (Confucius, The Analects, II, 3)
What does this passage suggest about Confucius's views?
A- Confucius was concerned by lawlessness within his society.
B- Confucius felt that leaders needed to understand the innate nature of the people over whom they ruled.
C- Confucius believed that if leaders conducted themselves well, the people would come to understand the difference between right and wrong

C- Confucius believed that if leaders conducted themselves well, the people would come to understand the difference between right and wrong.

Explanation

What helped me figure out the answer is "Keep them in line with punishments, and the people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves."

C- Confucius believed that if leaders conducted themselves well, the people would come to understand the difference between right and wrong.

Explanation:

according to howard zinn, the history presents the encounter between columbus and the arawaks as a heroic adventure of descovery but leaves in the shades the cruel slavery and bloodshed columbus led in order to pay back to his investors. he sent the indians back to his nation as a payment, slaved them to find gold in the land and punished them when they didn't find any. history presents columbus as a heroe and even celebrates his day, when in reality he led a genocide. zinn describes the story of the colonization from the arawaks point of view.