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• Chinese Philosophy Notes

• Confucianism
• Daoism
• Legalism

• HW : Study guide due Wednesday– Assessment TH

With your group, spend 2 minutes and come up with a definition of a philosophy…what is it? What does it mean?

• With your group, spend 2 minutes and come up with a definition of a philosophy…what is it? What does it mean?

• Born poor

• • Born poor

• • Became scholar, (failed) local ruler, & teacher

• • Never wrote down ideas

• • Students wrote his sayings in The Analects

• • Confucius was not concerned about a relationship with god/spirits, but rather personal relationships and order

Based on ethics (a set of moral principles)

• Based on ethics (a set of moral principles)

• Confucius believed that China was full of rude and dishonest people

• Feelings widespread around the Warring States period (~481 B.C.)
• He believed that China needed to change, and wanted change to come from the family and social harmony
• Confucius becomes the most influential teacher in Chinese history

Family

• Family

• The father should display high moral values and proper behavior to lead his family (this shows that the father was the head of a typical Chinese family)
• Children should respect and obey their parents
• Family members should respect and be loyal towards one another

• Respect for parents/elders above all else

• • Respect for parents/elders above all else

Social Harmony (through the government)

• Social Harmony (through the government)

• Fair, moral leaders are those which will bring order to China
• The King should lead all of China by example
• Lower classes should learn better behavior by following the example set by the upper classes.

Confucius believed that rulers would lead by moral example and

• Confucius believed that rulers would lead by moral example and

• people would behave properly through the example of those

• superior to them

• 1. Ruler subject

• 2. Parent child

• 3. Husband wife

• 4. Elder brother younger brother

• 5. Friend friend

• Founded by Laozi

• • Founded by Laozi

• • Lived during time of Confucius

• • Less worry about human affairs

• • Harmony with nature

• • Focus on the Dao (the way) of the universe

• • Things will work out

• • Don’t tell people how they’re suppose to act

• * Stressed that living in harmony with nature

Daoism was a response to Confucianism

• Daoism was a response to Confucianism

• Daoists did not want government involved in people’s lives

• Don’t tell people how to act

• They did not want people interfering with nature or one another
• Government should be so good people do not realize that it exists

• War is only for defense

Kung fu Panda

• Kung fu Panda

Founded by Hanz Feizi

• Founded by Hanz Feizi

• Main philosophy: people were bad and needed to be controlled

• Shi Huang Di was a famous Legalist

• Legalists did not care about morals, and they only respected authority

• Only a political philosophy, not a religion

Legalism was very strict

• Legalism was very strict

• Punishment was based on how bad crime was
• Offender, family, and neighbors were all punished

• Major goals were unity and efficiency

• Wanted trained officials (not nobles) in control

• Legalists wanted to expand China’s boundaries and always be prepared for war

He gave himself the title Shi Haung Di which means

• He gave himself the title Shi Haung Di which means

• “first emperor.”

• He was the first ruler to unify all of China

• Rules and punishments the same in all parts of the empire
• Standardized the written language
• Standardized the currency used in all of China
• New Roads (50 paces wide) faster movement of the military
• Irrigation system updated – and parts are still in use today

• He is remembered for his building programs including

• Great Wall of China
• Terra Cotta Army (Over 8,000)

• Dies on his quest to “live forever”

• Mercury (“quicksilver”) – not a good thing! 
• Within a few years of his death, the government falls

Buddhism is originally from India

• Buddhism is originally from India

• Reached China through traders using the Silk Road (~150 B.C.)
• Became a very popular religion
• Had a large influence on society, government, and Chinese approach to religion/philosophy
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