HST 101 Lecture : Pt1Ch2_Outline.docx
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Invoked zhou (best zhou deity: heaven gave wu authority as long as he looked out for the people i. = core texts of confucianism: liked earlier zhou rules, wanted to go back, rituals forms of behavior that guide people daily. Promote greater harmony between people: family fundamental component of society, conduct in home prepared members for working for the state, hierarchical order filiality of children to parents. Determined by age/gender: obedience, reverence, love, ren humaneness. Feelings of benevolence/compassion to family members, would transcend all activities: his ideas weren"t widely known in his time, mengzi (mencius) 371-289 bce essential goodness in humans. Leaders should lead by example: xunzi 310-210 bce people had to be compelled to make the right choice. In the andes i: trade and the rise of chavin, 1st villages near coastal plains, plains, diets of fish, eventually corn.
