HIST-281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mao Zedong, Qin Dynasty, Sui Dynasty
15 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Family name comes first in chinese (mao zedong -- mao = family name. ) Family name is important and paramount for identity. The wade-gilles system first translated characters to the roman alphabet until the. 1950s when it was replaced by the pinyin system. Time of warfare, decline of central authority and flowering of chinese philosophy. Ideas of confucius and mencius as well as daoism established norms for chinese society. Emphasis placed on social and political implications of abstract philosophy. Philosophy is not necessarily about abstract ideas, as most philosophers are religious and trying to solve the conflict of the day (i. e, war). Philosophy may be called as a religion by some, but most people don"t consider it to be. There is no conflict with switching and being different philosophies which responds to different needs a person has and what suits them best. Society divided according to 4 basic groups: scholars, farmers, artisans, merchants.
