Problems that occurred was the rich taking advantage of the poor, limited amount of land and droughts. He recognized that a stable and civilized society needed civilized people. He proposed to do that through education and self-improvement. This was very nice. The second part was about how to organize a stable society. Here he proposed a rigid and despotic system of an absolute monarch endowed with the “mandate of heaven”. This is not so nice. In his defense, he lived in an era of constant wars and he didn’t know how to stop that other than putting in an enlightened despot (put through his education and self improvement program) with absolute power.
