The wise school pursues individual liberation and realizes personal value. Express dissatisfaction with the real political system.

Confucianism aims at unification and maintains the order of the ruling class.

Common ground between the school of wise men and Confucianism;

All belong to the ideological liberation movement. Western countries are called enlightenment, while China is called a hundred schools of thought contend. It is also a concrete reflection of the economic system and political system of that era.