HISTORY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mohism, Taoism
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History 250 lecture 12 the golden age of thought. Causes: collapse of the feudal system. 4 main schools: confucianism, daoism, mohism, and legalism. Names created later: mainly concerned with humans and not nature. Promote humans living harmoniously with nature: rules on how to govern ourselves. 6 classics (later term): book of poetry. Written 11th century bce 5th century bce: book of change. The universe is changing constantly and humans must change with it: we need to renew ourselves. Everything can be divided into two (yin and yang: the dao (the way) Earliest observation of natural phenomena: book of history. 100+ chapters today only 29 survive: book of rice. How to sleep, eat, bathe, have funerals, etc: book of music. Completely lost: spring and autumn annals. Chronology of state where confucius was born. Almost all produced by northern thinkers (except daoism) The art of war: military classic. 2 earliest schools confucianism and daoism: after legalism then mohism created.
