The steps needed by a person to become

good and prevent himself/herself from

becoming evil

1. Always be considerate to others.

2. Respect your ancestors.
3. Try for harmony and balance in all
things.
4. Avoid extremes in behavior and
emotion.
5. If you live in peace and harmony,
then you will be in contact with the
spiritual forces of the universe,
including nature.

In what ways is it engaged in politics?

  Confucius was a practical philosopher and

political reformer of the first rank. His thoughts
on the ideal government and ruler shaped the
policies and ideas of Chinese political life. Even
when rulers and government officials did not
live up to Confucian ideals, an attempt was
always made to justify policies and actions by
reference to Confucius and his teachings.
Confucian political philosophy had a stabilizing,
though at the same time also somewhat
stagnating, influence on the way China was
administered and remained preeminent up until
the communist revolution.

Why did it's leaders decide to be involved in

politics?

Confucius was unable to implement any of the

political reforms or political philosophy which
he advocated. Although he held a number of
relatively minor government posts during his
lifetime his efforts to get any ruler to adopt his
advice met with repeated failure and he spent
much of his later life wandering through China
without a home and exiled from his home state.