ASC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hundred Schools Of Thought, Analects, Human Nature
31 Oct 2014
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Iron in general use: building of walls around cities. Many of the great classical writings on which chinese culture was based for the next two and one- half millennia: they do this because they want superior weapons. Many of the thinkers were itinerant intellectuals and advisors to rulers. Confucianism , , , daoism , and legalism . Confucianism contemporary of the buddha and died shortly before the birth of socrates. Confucius , kong fuzi 551-479 bce. We understand confucius through the writings of his disciples (lun yu, analects) reinstating the ceremonies and customs of high (early zhou period)--would remedy all the ills of the world. Later more interested in general moral principles that would be applicable anywhere. Confucius and his followers had no major impact on the politics of their own time. They nevertheless articulated a political theory based on ancient ritual practice; Educated chinese during the han dynasty and later began to take this political theory seriously.
