HIST 11051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Filial Piety, Junzi, Analects
28 Apr 2019
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The search for understanding and order: from zhou to han. A strong-willed man, from an aristocratic family. Traveled ten years searching for an official post. Sayings compiled in the analects by disciples. Restore political and social order; stress ritual. Edited zhou classics for his disciples to study. Cultivating of junzi for bringing order to china. 5 relationships and filial piety as basis of society. Believed in the goodness of human nature. Cast doubt on the goodness of human nature. Harsh social discipline to order to society. Promoted a practical and ruthlessly efficient approach. No concern with the principles governing nature. A chief minister of the qin state. His policies summarized in the book of lord shang. Student of xunzi, became the most articulate legalist. Forced to suicide by his political enemies. Harnessing self-interest of people for needs of state. Called carrot and stick approach in west. Called for harsh penalties even for minor infractions.
