DAOIC RELIGION
DEFINITION OF CONFUCIANISM
• Emphasize the ethical dimensions of the world, it gives primary
attention to human relationship, Advocating social values and
ideas serve as foundation of Chinese society
• Confucianism ideals were inspirational, not in supernatural
sense, but in the sense aiming of excellent
• Focus on relationship should be emphasize, but in reality they
• Are the hardest
• Moreover Confucius stressed the important of ritual.
• Confucianism has been categorized with Buddhism Christianity,
Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Daoism as major religion
Analects
*Also known as the analects of Confucius
*Traditionaly believe to have been written by Confucius followers
*Believe to have been written during the middle of the Han
dynasty*
*It was considered as the five classis merely a commentary on as
one of the four books alóng with:
-Greal learning
-Doctrine of the Mean
E-book of Mencius
-influmemtal canonical resource in Chinese and east Asian
philosophy
confucius was born in a small foudal state of Lu in Qufu (now
shantong province)
*He was born on September 28 on 551 B.C.E.
"it is considered a day of celebration in East Asia-an official
holiday in Taiwan
"his first teacher was his mother
*The age of 15 be set his heart upon learning
*Thus love of learning became one of the highest virtues in.
ethics
*He married at the age of 19 and had a son at the age of 20
*His life had already served in minor government
*When he was in 30s he had already started a brilliant teaching
career
DAOIC RELIGION
• -known as the school of hundred thoughts which was
characterize struggle who Inpost social order.
• This school of thoughts, together with the elements of
Mahayana Buddhism and new religious movement such as
cao dai, Chen dao and Falun gong all make up the Daoic
Religion, this religion sentered on the Chinese philosophy
which reffed to moral order.
• Dao is immanent and pervade natural word, "the mother
of the universe constantly nurtures nature once goul there
for to live harmony.
CONFUCIAN DOCTRINES/BELIEFS
*Confucius is more often celebrated for his Golden rule
"Do not do unto others what you would not have
requires people's to treat others eqal to themselves
and in equally the same manner as they would have wanted to
be treated
*confucian doctrines qinclude the idea of Tian or heaven
HUMAN NATURE AS ORIGINALLY GOOD OR EVIL
*there were two philosophers who had different inter ect of
human nature based on the pretations on the subject of anlects
*Mengzi and Yunzi (Hsum tzu)
*Their views on human nature is were opposed to one
another
*Mengzi believed that all human beings are born with innate
goodness proper education and self discipline or be thrown away
though neglect and bad influence, on the other
*Needs cultivation though obedience to one's Li (ritual
properly)as well as to one's qi (vital energy)
*Xunzi believed that human nature is basically evil but improve
though self-cultivation
Five classics of a group of Books
★ the book of Changes,
★Book of history,
★Book of poetry,
★the classic of Rites,
★ the spring and autum annale
"His mastery of arts ritual music, archery, charioteering,
calligraphy and arithmetic
*Familiar with classical tradition, particularly in poetry and
history
*He beld several government position including as arbiter,
assistant minister of public work minister of justice in the state
of Lu
*He's soon left Lufor 13 years
*at 67, he returned home to teach and to preserve his classical
traditions
by writing and editing
*He died in 479 at the age of 73
"He left around 5,000 followers who preserved and put his
other teaching to writing
BELIEF OF TIAN
when you have offended against nowhere you can turn to
heaven there *He believe in tian or heaven' an all
encompassing god
*Refers to what which is beyond human control The Li or ritual
propriety is the way though which the family state and world
may become parallel with tians moral order
"He believe that only by which was done by performing the
ancient rituals, earlier kingsc ould harmony bettwen heaven
and earth be revived
Book of poetry
• "also known as the book of songs/odes/shiding *collection of
three hundred and five songs complied around 600 B.C.E.
• It includes four section of various themes such as love,courtship,
abandonment and dances
"It also includes feast songs or state chants
• Supposedly compiled by Confucius from an ancient repertory of
three thousand considered as the oldest existing compilation of
Chinese poetry
Classic of Rites
• originally the three Li/threeRites/San Li
• Completion of ceremonial rituals, administration, and social
forms of the Zhou Dynasty *Complete body of work which
includes the cerémonials(l-li/Yili)
• It also I Clyde's the book of Rites(Li-chi/Liji)
• Composed of of forty forty nine nine sections of ritual and
government guidelines, essays on education *Included the
institutes of chou(chou-li/Zhou Li)
• Supposedly compiled in the Carly first century B.C.E. based on
earlier materials
RECTIFICATION IF NAMES
• Confucius believe that to return to the ancient Dao
• later called the rectification of names or shengning
• The Five relationship include:
1.sule-subject
2.Father-son
3.husband-wife
4.elder and younger brother
5.Friend and friend
• zhengming helps bring social order for it advocates the ideas
that every persons has a particular role at a particulartime in
life
• Able to fulfill ones social duties and responsibilities, thus
creating social harmony
Book of History
• also known as the "book of document or shang shu" The
book of history is conventionally attribute to Confucius by
early scholar.
• Composed of speeches of royalty and minister mainly from
the shang and Zhou dynastic
• It also consist of chronological accounts of imperial
achievements and rules of government
