RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Filial Piety, Analects, Tzu

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 253
• Professor: G Hori

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Lecture 4, january 12: the ancestral family, first ancestor, virtue and lineage. First ancestor is virtuous; family members are to transmit the irst ancestor"s virtue: family and the ive relationships . Father-son : mother is included in this category; sill, females are not menioned. Friend-friend : internal senior-junior structure (not equals, marriages. First obligaion to create a male heir: one oicial wife, several concubines (if a family is wealthy, can aford to buy more concubines) If oicial wife has no son, it is blamed on the wife even if it may be the husband"s fault then obliged to take a concubine as a moral responsibility. Typically male marries at 17, females at 14: complicaions. He and wife have respect relaionship, not have love relaionship. Chooses a concubine at the concubine market: picks someone prety and can get along with him, 15 years old. Oicial wife has presige, but not afecion of husband. Concubine has afecion, but no presige or dignity.