A Comparison of Confucius with Plato and Aristotle in Political Philosophy Summary: Modern political philosophy lists Plato and Aristotle as its ancient founders but not Confucius. In fact, Confucius was a professional politician while neither Plato nor Aristotle was. Confucius practiced and taught politics for his whole life. Confucius’ political philosophy is based on the genetically coded primary society while Western political philosophy including Plato’s and Aristotle’s are all based on the man-made secondary society. Confucius political philosophy is nothing but human-heartedness plus examples, which are set up by the ruling class for the people to follow and set up …