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NoteStudied by 18 peopleConfucianism
- Founded on Confucius’ (551-479 BCE) teachings
- Most famous Chinese philosopher
- Grew up impoverished → learned from feudal practices
- Watched what higher-ups did, learned how to copy
- Never wrote down his teachings
- Students wrote it down in the Analects: book compiling all his principles
- Became foundation for social life in China
- Philosophy centered around it
- Government + society grounded in Confucianism thought
- Basic order in the universe
- Natural harmony linking man + nature + cosmos
- Man = naturally social
- Five relationships with reciprocity
- Ruler
- Husband
- Parent
- Elder brother
- Friend
- Filial piety = children’s devotion to parents
- Family = primary social unit
- Caused society to view government ruler as “father” of the state
- Ren = highest virtue
- Humaneness/sense of relatedness to other persons
- Dao = the right way/path
- Following the correct virtues leads you in harmony with dao
- Mandate of heaven = ruler gets authority from heaven → Heaven’s son
- Rulers are supposed to help the state + people
- Expectations = stability + wealth + population growth + good living conditions
- All humans are essentially alike
- Change throughout education + environment
- Why Confucius stressed education
- Man = naturally good
- Affected government rule
- Ruler’s main function = educating/transforming population using moral examples
- Merit bureaucracy = civil service with elected officials with the best moral role modeling
- Used civil service exams to choose candidates
- Fell into decline at the fall of the Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 220 AD)
- Dormant for roughly 600 years
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NoteStudied by 29 people3.14 Other Classical Genres
NoteStudied by 26 people2.6: theories of development
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