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AP World History Ch.
AP World History Ch. 8
Question | Answer |
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Who is Confucius? | Confucius was a educator and political advisor |
What are Confucius key values? | Ren--a sense of humanity, kindness, benevolence Li--a sense of propriety, courtesy, respect, deference to elders Xiao--filial piety, familial obligation Cultivate personal morality and junzi for bringing order to China |
Who is Mencius? | Mencius was a spokesman for the Confucius school |
What were their beliefs? | believed in the goodness of human nature and advocated government by benevolence and humanity |
Who was Xunzi? | He was a man that had less positive views on human nature |
What did he believe? | He believed that humans selfishly presue own interests and he preferred harsh social discipline to bring order into society |
What is Daoism? | Laozi is the founder of this religion which featured doubts of Confucian activism which prefers a life in harmony with nature |
What is The Dao? | The Dao is the way of nature. The Dao is passive and yielding it does nothing but it helps people accomplish everything |
What is legalism? | Legalism is the doctrine of practical and efficient statecraft which means that it has no concern with ethics or morality and with the principles governing nature |
Shang Yang Han Feizi | (390-338 BCE) chief minister of Qin and legalist writer (280-233 BCE) wrote essays that had his legalism ideas |