Zusammenfassung der Ressource
China
- Dynastys
Anmerkungen:
- Dynastic Cycle-
the circle of dynasties that changed over the course of time. How does dynastic rule impact order in China?- It determines their laws, social order, and culture. For example, the Qin dynasty was a period of social status, war, and used the idea of legalism. While the Han dynasty was a diplomatic period and used confucianism.
- Shang (Oldest)
Anmerkungen:
- - Used oracle bones to predict the future.
- Began ancestral worship
- Giant musolean- civilation built on sacrafices
Alcohol
- Belief systems
- Confucianism: Ethical
Anmerkungen:
- - Created by philosopher Confucius
- Taught about how to ensure social order and good government
Core Ideas: (6)
- Ruler- Subject
- Father & Son
- Husband & Wife
- Older & Younger
- Friend & Friend
*Harmony where every individual knows their place in society
*Superior individuals set good examples of behavior and inferior obey the strong
- Legalism: Practical
Anmerkungen:
- _ Han Fei lived during the waring period
- Legalism became the core philosophy in the Qin dynasty
Principals:
- Human nature is selfish
- Intellection and literacy is discouraged
- Law is the supreme authority and replaces mortality
- The ruler must rule with a strong punishing hand
- War is the means of strengthening rulers' power
- 2/3 of the population during this philosophy were killed
- Daoism: Spiritual
Anmerkungen:
- - Lao Zi- Spiritual
Principals:
- Dao- the first cause of the universe. Flows through all life
- Believers' goal is to become one with Dao; one with nature
- "Let nature take its course" "The art of doing nothing" and "Go with the flow."
- Man is unhappy because he lives according to man-made laws, customs, and traditions that are contrary to nature's way
The Dao (Tao)
- Escape the man traps of life
- Reject formal knowledge and learning; Relying on the sense and instincts, Discovering nature and "rhythm" of the universe
- Ignore political and social law
- YIN- YANG
- Zhou (Mandate of heaven)
Anmerkungen:
- 1.) XIan
- King Wu
Waring period- System of justice: Mandate of heaven( justified emperors rule, rules humans but chosen by the gods) - Created fuile system
- Qin (Shi Huangdi)
Anmerkungen:
- Chinese emperor that united china: Shi Hunag Di
Shi Huangdi turned China into Legalsit idealism (human nature is selfish and should therefore be punished
- Han (Golden age)
Anmerkungen:
- - Considered chinas "golden age"
- Diplomatic approach
- Confusianism (social order)
- Geography
Anmerkungen:
- - Yellow river
- Yangtze river
- Gobi desert
- Himilayan mountains