PHL237H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Universalizability, Zhong You, Bu Shang
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First phase: confucius (551-479bce), one of the ru, taught largest number of students (3000). Second phase: from zisi (493-406 bce) to mencius (371-289bce). (grandson of. Third phase: xunzi (298-238bce) : confucianism or rujia . Confucianism, thus called in the west, means literally the school of thought and practice that were founded by confucius. However, in chinese, it is called rujia , a term first used by the grand. Historian sima qian in 100bc. , after the end of classical confucianism: mentioned by sima qian in , ru . Ru ( ), those who served in spring and autumn (722-481bce) as middle range officers working in the areas of education and public rites. Later, they lost their office and earned their living as teacher of rites and ritual coordinator. They taught the six arts: ritual, music, arching, driving, writing and calculating. (comparable to the seven art from the middle ages and the.
