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Themes. In Chinese Philosophy. The End of Feudal China. Collapse of Zhou Dynasty Disintegration of state Social disorder Rise of independent kingdoms. The Hundred Schools of Thought. Only Six were important School of Names (名家, míngjiā) Yin-Yang School (陰陽家, yīnyángjiā)
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Themes In Chinese Philosophy
The End of Feudal China • Collapse of Zhou Dynasty • Disintegration of state • Social disorder • Rise of independent kingdoms
The Hundred Schools of Thought • Only Six were important • School of Names (名家, míngjiā) • Yin-Yang School (陰陽家, yīnyángjiā) • Confucianism (儒家, rújiā) • Taoism (道家, dàojiā) • Mohism (墨家, mòjiā) • Legalism (法家, fǎjiā)
The Social Order • Looking for the Way to behave • Dào (道) • The goal is to promote Harmony
Nostalgia • Unity: China ought to be a single state with one ruler • He has the Mandate of Heaven (天命, tiānmìng) • He is the Son of Heaven (天子 tiānzì) • He rules all Under Heaven (天下, tiān xià) Note: Heaven is partly a divinity and partly Nature
Nostalgia • Precedent: the preferred validator • The Five Emperors • The Yellow Emperor (黃帝, huángdì) • Zhuānxū(顓頊) • Dì Kù (帝嚳) • Yao (堯) • Shun (舜) • Yu (禹)
Nostalgia • Precedent: the preferred validator • The Five Classics • Classic of Changes (易經, Yi Jīng). • Classic of Poetry (詩經, Shī Jīng). • Classic of History (書經, Shū Jīng). • Book of Rites (禮記 Lǐ Jì). • Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋 Chūn Qiū).
Nostalgia • The centrality of the family
Idealisation of Nature • Nature has a Yin-Yang duality • The alternation of the two creates cycles
Human Nature • Is Man Good or Bad? • Every man should aim to be a sage (聖, shèng)