01:840:211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Analects, Junzi, Human Beings In Buddhism
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Confucianism reaches state orthodoxy in han dynasty. Confucian influence in korea, japan, and vietnam. Least in china and most in korea. Vision of confucius: learning from the past. Period of time where there is decline in a unified empire. Disintegration of an established order and norm like rituals. Confucius opened up the learning beyond social class restraints. His influence grows after his death after the warring states period. He operates on its own spontaneously. Human focused on the human realm. The analects: what makes for a good man and what makes for a good government. Centrality of learning open to all inferential learning, moral learning. The good, humanity, benevolence, authoritativeness) supreme virtue in the analects.
