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Was Aristotle aware of Confucius?

Hi guys, new user here.  I did a google search and could not find anything on the subject.  I have read almost everything Aristotle has written and am a huge fan of virtue ethics.  

I am planning to study abroad in China this fall and decided to get better acquainted with Eastern thought.

In reading Confucius' "Central Harmony" it seems that many of his ideas on man in society parallel Aristotle's own thoughts on the matter.  Do smart men who spend their lives thinking actually reach the same conclusions? Or was Aristotle aware of Confucius' writings and didn't credit his sources? 

Thanks in advance.
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There is no way that Aristotle could have known about Confucius, because there was no transmission of Chinese texts to the Mediterranean or vice versa at that time. This is for any text. Additionally, we know of no texts of the *Analects* that are older than about 140BCE--like most traditions of this time, Confucianism took some centuries to be consolidated into a canon of texts, meaning that by the time the *Analects* are compiled and are being passed around, Aristotle is long dead and buried.

There are important and interesting simularities between the ethics of Aristotle and Confucius, but every indication we have is that this is independently arrived at. This wouldn't be surprising, given the subject-matter: the native dispositions of human beings to flourish best in well-ordered social settings. If it really is a native disposition, then you'd find it everywhere there are stable human populations.