China's most important student was. He was born at 551 BC, during the period the Chou Dynasty was already in decline and that was the period of crisis and upheaval in China. He took a critical experience and needed to restore the order and ethical living China had left behind. Confucius thought that social order, music and better government would be restored in China if world were organized in five fundamental relationships: Besides Confucius different Chinese students and philosophers developed ethical systems with very different philosophies. Some were more concentrated in nature and others in government. For instance, the Chinese intellectual, Laozi, for him but natural rule was crucial. That affects relationships among all living things. He states that the universal power named the Dao, thinking "This Way," guides all things and that only humans of all that other animals of nature fail to follow it. His belief came to be called Taoism.
