HUMA 1865 Lecture Notes - Ren Bonian, Filial Piety, Junzi
13 Oct 2013
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Emperor of china considered son of heaven (intermediary between heaven and humans) considered political actor and agent syncretism and/or co-existence of different belief systems. One need not choose sides and cheer for a single team confucious: More commonly known as kongzi or kong qiu. 551-479 bce china at the time was at war, and was futile state confucious didn"t write anything, he considered himself a teacher foremost but his disciples wrote for him. 1 shengren sage (highest ideal character: confucious claimed neither to be a. Confucious: talked about levels of character sage himself nor to have met one) 2 shanren good man (confucious claimed to not have met a good man terms seems to apply to men in government) 3 junzi gentleman (for confucious, junzi is an ideal moral character; discuseed in many chapters of the analects) moral person, superior character (spiritually and morally) 4 xianoren small person (petty person: concerned primarily with profit.
