RLGA01H3 Study Guide - Medicine Man, Citta, Soul Doctor
Document Summary
Key terms for the lecture on east asian religions: Heaven regulates the world and the moral order. Humans had their genesis from the heaven and earth principle. Function within the state regulated rules and values. The philosophical ideas that the west calls confucianism did not originate with. They ca be found in the 5 classics 1)yijing 2)shujing. 3)shijung 4)liji and 5)chunqiu there was a 6th one (yueji) but it is now lost. Some of these works came before the confucius. He spoke of himself as a transmitter of the tradition. Confucius is known as the first of china"s three classical philosophers the other two are mencius and xunzi. He considered himself the transmitter of the religion rather than the innovator. The analects is the single and most important teaching of the confucius. The confucius used ren(humanness or goodness) to capture virtues of respect etc(see ren). Above all, he emphasized the practice of filial piety or devotion.
