The Philosophies of China

o Born poor

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

o Never wrote down ideas

o Students wrote his sayings in The Analects

• Confucianism

• Filial piety

• Confucius

• Family

o Based on ethics (a set of moral principles)

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

• Confucius

• Confucianism

• Social Harmony

• Filial piety

o 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)

• Filial piety

• Family

• Social Harmony

• Generation

O Respect for parents/elders above all else

• Family

• Showing respect

• Social Harmony

• Filial piety

o Fair, moral leaders are those which will bring order to China

o The King should lead all of China by example

o Lower classes should learn better behavior by following the example set by the upper classes.

• Social Harmony

• FIlial piety

• Confucius

• Respect

o also spelled Taoism,

religio-philosophical tradition that has shaped Chinese life for more than 2,000 years.

• Daoism

• Buddhism

• Taoism

• Legalism

advocated government by a system of laws that rigidly prescribed punishments and rewards for specific behaviours. They stressed the direction of all human activity toward the goal of increasing the power of the ruler and the state.

• Legal

• Legalism

• Buddhism

• Taoism

o one of the world's largest religions and originated 2,500 years ago in India.

• Buddhism

• Taoism

• Legalism

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