RELG 207 Lecture Notes - Analects, Mozi, Great Learning
15 Apr 2013
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Period of the warring states (huston smith, 160): A turbulent period of social unrest and continuous warfare. By confucius" time, the horror of surprise attacks and sudden raids resulted in mass slaughters of 60, 000, 80, 00, and even 400,000. The first teacher of confucianism, known in chinese as kongzi. Confucius is a latinized form of kung fu- tzu (literally: kung the master ). Born in humble circumstances in the state of lu, he was privileged in having a good education. He married at 19 and divorced at 23. He started a school in his house and by the time of his death he had trained about 3, 000 men. He died at the age of 72 while editing the. Realists / han fei tzu (huston smith, 164): In short, the realists" answer to the problem of social order was: laws with teeth in them. in other words, in the end it is brute force that rules.
