HIST285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Individualism, Totalitarianism, The Fifth Modernization
25 Dec 2017
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196 confucian east asia helps to identify three sets of issues: pg 198 asian and comparative religion religious pluralism is inevitable, pg. 199 confucian insistence on importance of equality rather than freedom: pg. Industrial east asia/socialist east asia experience a revival of confucian teachings: positive influence of west (near the bottom of pg. 201 jesuits humanistic splendor of chinese: confucian china provided intellectual challenge, chinese intellectuals accept inevitability of westernization to survive. Enlightenment mind blowing for chinese: may 4th intellectuals westernization is needed to combat chinese. But thought that it was because to get rid of old china but not necessarily embrace the west: pg. 202: heavy emphasis on benefits of colonialism, enlightenment alive and well. Need capitalism in china: hindered by need to save nation, pg. 203: science and democracy save china, criticizes iconoclasm. Humane rites of interaction: civilized mode cannot be coerced. Civil society: relationship between family and state.
