RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Xia Dynasty, Sympathetic Resonance, Confucianism
17 Mar 2016
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Ruler subject (similar to father& son) ; Respect ancestors = respect the heaven importance of tradition. Macrocosmic - microcosmic relations family, state, tianxia . Social imagination - harmony but in the hierarchy. Meaning of rituals media between macro and microcosmos. Meaning of music poetry, song, dance. Both as the symptom and the cause of social harmony. Between you as an individual and the macrocosmos. 3 cultural h ros and 5 sage kings. Socio-political changes in late zhou dynasty the time of chaos. Zhou was defeated by the other states. Smaller kingdoms began vying with one another to gain superiority. Learned to use iron instead of bronze which is tougher. Harmony was lost but needed to be restored. Zhou was not in the centre under the heaven. Weakening of class structure (aristocracy) and the rise of the specialists (shi) *** son of concubines would become lords but as time pass on they don"t have much land and becomes nothing.
