RELS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jewish Mythology, Budai, Japanese Buddhist Pantheon

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 200
• Professor: Craig Ginn

Document Summary

Not yet a unified china but states with kings. 300 bc only 7 states (smaller states absorbed) No one has had more influence on the way things are in china as him. Not sure if he actually wrote his works or just inspired them. Time of socrates and plato, very different. China had a well developed language at the time, we have good records. People were afraid of the unknown, developed rituals of sacrifice to gods. Believed all sorts of forces inhabited things and animals. Chinese had idea of all under control of heaven as an explanation. The world didn"t create anyone, we just came to be. Family and relationships in it as heart of society. Beginning to reflect on human position, morality, freedom and responsibility of actions. Saw that vicious struggles for power led to nowhere, peace was necessary. The analects of confucius- his books, writings, books 3-9 written in his time.