PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Feng Shui, Taoism, Junzi
20 Apr 2016
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3 general categories difficult to draw the lines between each of their. Major theme of transition from sacrificial rites/beliefs in deities to more humanistic. Ancient pantheon shangdi = lord on high ; weather god. Rulers were mediators between earth and heaven. Goal is to find balance between yin and yang. Aspects of both light and dark (for example) in each side of the image. In the light there is an aspect of darkness and vice versa. Divination often referred to as inductive prophecy. Reading the divine codes in the cosmos/world. Animals entails liver, intestines etc. were used to find messages. Compare findings on the entails to what happened last time they found similar marks (ex. Last time we found pink spots a war started ) Kind of used like a magic 8 ball . 64 passages used fortune tellers to decode/interpret. The analects (authoritative text) main source for confucius. Ren human nature; confucius thought human nature was.
