Week 6: Ch. 4 Culture & Religion

• China’s quest for order:

• Around 2000 BCE-state building tradition
• Legalist Answer
• Han Fei was Chinese Legalist philosopher
• Disorder is corrected by strict and clearly enforced rules.
• Confucian Answer
• Confucius
• Superior class sets the moral and ethical examples used to correct disorder
• Education was widely used as a way to improve or enhance oneself
• Took great pride in understanding their history
• No religion
• Daoism Answer
• Laozi, the author Daodejing aka “The Way and Its Power”
• Dao translates to the “way of nature”

• The Cultural Traditions of India

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• Heavy religious connections/influences
• Hinduism
• Developed overtime with Indian civilization
• Social hierarchy
• Caste System

• Buddhist Challenge

• Created alongside Hinduism
• Life is believed to be suffering
• Rebirth/ Reincarnation
• Enlightenment

• Classical Greece

• Intellectuals challenged myth
• Ways of knowing
• Changed the way questions were being asked
• Socrates---->Plato------>Aristotle

• Birth of Christianity with Comparison to Buddhism

• Christ was Jewish
• Son of God
• His teachings were geared more towards social/political issues than buddhism
• Christ was said to only in his physical form for 3 years
• Christ was executed while gautama died naturally (old age)
• Christ had apostoles