Confucians emphasizes and values morality, hence observers tended to regard moralities as politics so that the independent politics in the Confucian tradition has become implicit. Through a perusal of the Analects of Confucius, we can find that ethics and politics were separated from and independent of each other to Confucius, the primitive Confucian: he did not substitute ethics for politics.
Dongfang Shuo, Lin Hongcheng.
Separation of politics and morality: a commentary on Analects of Confucius. Front. Philos. China, 2006, 1(3): 401‒417 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-006-0016-5
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