Chapter 8: Confucianism "The Way of Ritual Propriety"

the collection of the sayings and actions of Confucius known in China as the Lunyu

he is the key figure in classical Confucianism, credited as the author of the Analects and later divinized

a superhuman spirit

It's about empty rituals, wives obeying husbands, workers bowing and scraping their bosses, and the masses blindly following the great and powerful Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

Confucianism provides the basic model for relationships between parents and children, husbands and wives. It teaches respect for authority and justifies resisting those under certain circumstances. Confucianism's emphasis on morals and etiquette provides a foundation for everyday conduct

father and son, elder brother and younger brother, husband and wife, older friend and younger friend, and ruler and subject

Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism are polyamorous. Does not demand a believer's exclusive allegiance

He was China's second sage, also known as Mengzi "master meng." He saw human nature as fundamentally good. For goodness to come out, it must be cultivated like sprouts in a. garden.

He was a Chinese philosopher. He saw humans as fundamentally evil. Instead of cultivating ourselves like Mencius said, Xunzi believes we must fight our natural inclinations

the fundamental texts for classical Confucianism: Book of History, Book of Poetry, Book of Rites, Book of Changes, and Spring and Autumn Annals

We are social beings who become fully ourselves by engaging with others. To become truly human beings means to be someone who both understands and enacts virtues, and this can be achieved through learning/education

social chaos

social harmony

humanness, ritual propriety, and various methods of self-cultivation

Junzi (profound person) and shengren (sage)

It demonstrates how we are social beings who become more fully ourselves by engaging with others. as more of us become truly human, the families, communities, and societies in which we live became more ordered and harmonious. the individual goal of becoming more truly human aligns with the collective goal of social harmony

Confucianism is a tradition in which individuals seek to cultivate social harmony by reverting to the humans and ritual propriety of the sage-kings of ancient China