Daoism

3 key ideas

• claimed education for morals was an artificial and useless effort

• focused on dao (the way of nature)

• tried to align people with the theory of nature

Laozi

6th century archivist

Daodejing

short poetic volume by Laozi

Yin Yang

belief in unity of complete opposites (male/female)

Shinto

japanese word

• nature spirit

• all nature has a spirit and worshipping it makes ur life better

Other ideologies

• Ancestor Worship

  • can make things better or worse with their powers

    • you die but your soul doesn’t

• Legalism

  • less philosophical and more practical

  • punish people who aren’t doing good

  • reward people who are doing good

summary of the 4

• legalism- know the law

• confucionism- know your place

• daoism- know yourself/nature

• ancestor- know the souls