RELS 1404 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Junzi, Filial Piety, Taoism

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 1404
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Zhou dynasty (ca. 1045/1040-256 bce) notion of heavenly mandate millennium bce) nd. Spring and autumn period (722-479 bce) dynastic power disintegrates. Warring states period (479-221 bce) warfare between different states, period of the hundred schools of thought . Qin emperor said to have burned all philosophical/religious books and. Unified china using legalist methods buried non-legalist scholars alive. Rujiao the teaching of scholars ( the weak/gentle ) Analects (lunyu ) -collected (and edited) conversations of confucius. Junzi (ch n-tzu) prince, noble person, gentleman, superior man. [11:12] chi lu asked about serving the spirits. Confucius said, if you can"t yet serve men, how can you serve the spirits? . [3:12] sacrificing as if present means sacrificing to the spirits as if they were present. Confucius said, if i do not personally offer the sacrifice, it is the same as not having sacrificed at all. [7:23] the master said: heaven gave birth to the virtue within me.