HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Karl Jaspers, Zhou Dynasty, Zoroaster
3 Sep 2018
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800-200 bce produced collection of thinkers that created complementary ideas. Gave birth to fundamental ideas that still resonate in society. Order recording of population, land, and agricultural product. Sayings handed down orally before being compiled into a written form called. Tradition institutions and values that gave them new meaning. Modeled after wise rulers and benevolent states alled the analects. Prepared them to be citizens in the state. Devotion to ruler relates to how a child obeys parents. Education should be directed at uncovering this goodness. Ruler must act benevolently and the ruler is actually subordinate to the. Government should see to the education of the people. If people rebel, mandate of heaven is removed. Human desires and emotions , if unchecked and unrefined, caused con. Ideas lead to the development of the legalist school of thought. Dao-flux of the universe that function on the cosmic scale. Credited with writing the foundation of daoism- classic of the way of virtue.
