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Kung the Master, Confucius
The first ranking teacher
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•“supreme editor” of Chinese culture |
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Believe that delinquency must be treated with force and harsh punishment
This has a low estimate of human nature
Judges people as instinctually sinful
Judges people as short sighted |
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| Love is the solution to China’s problems |
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| The primary virtue in Confucius’s life, means human-heartedness, benevolence, love. Humanity for others and respect for yourself |
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| is the ideal term in loving relations, humanity at its best. Relaxed, at one with your surroundings, selfless, not worried about what you can get out of the other person |
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Propriety (politeness) the way things should be done.
Addressing people by proper names
Balance of temperament and indulgence in relationships between father and child, husband and wife, etc. |
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The power by which men are ruled
The power of moral example |
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The arts of peace
Music art poetry
Believed to not appreciate the arts is to only be half human |
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| was reported founder of Taoism. Born around 604 BCE |
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The way of ultimate reality, the base of all things but is transcendent.
In second form it is the way of the universe, it is imminent, the norm and rhythm driving power of all nature, it is the order and principal behind all life.
The third way is the way of the human life. |
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the way and its power, the essential text in Taoism.
Everything revolves around the concept of tao itself. |
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| Philosophical taoism, efficient power |
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| reflective, conserve the power (Dei), use it wisely |
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| means in action, but in Taoism it means a pure effectiveness. In other words no motion is wasted and it supports simplicity, being and freedom. Part of philisophical taoism |
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| He had a vivid dream in which he was a butterfly. When he woke up he asked “how do I know I am not a butterfly dreaming I am a man?” This is a typical example of philosophical Taoist thought. |
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| Hygienic taoism, augmented power |
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increase quotient of power (Dei)
use 3 things: - matter (eat, drink, inhale) uses toaist yoga, tai chi, and ying yang philosophy. |
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| philosophy and meditation and to block the flow of chi in the body and the mind, with meditation comes close to Raja Yoga but has unique twist in that they believe that the Chi achieved in mediation can be transmitted physically to the community. |
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| literally means breath, but here means vital energy |
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| Religious taoism vicarious power |
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| Tao Chow (Toaist church) divinized Lao Tzu, magic i.e. conduits for the Dei/Chi, harvest the power and use it for the community and the individual |
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| essentially speaking to the identity of opposites. Opposites still invade each others territory and are both encompassed by the TAO which encircles it, no absolute wrong or right, in the relative mind of the individual. These opposite compliment and balance each |
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