HIST 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Human Nature, Nonviolence, Polis
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Historical setting: warring states, they feel the need to solve problem of social. Focus on empathy and humanness (shu: compassion) golden rule was his idea. Believes that our love to others should be based out of relationship to them (he has 5 relationships, they"re hierarchical) Patriarchal state (state modeled after the family. Spam: (idealized hierarchy) scholar > peasant > artisan > The idea is that peasants provide more for everyone than. By the way, everyone doesn"t like the merchants anyone else. Human nature is bad, thus we need law. Everyone is subject to the same law/punishment. State centered system of rewards and punishments. While human nature is bad, if we positively reinforce good behavior/punish bad behavior, human behavior can be controlled. Athens in theory had a democracy, but really they just expanded the elite class to participate in government. To make up for that, women"s rights are waay restricted.
