Chinese history

When the authorities draft soldiers, a cripple can walk among them confidently flapping his sleevesà. Thus one whose form is crippled can nurture his body and live out the years Heaven grants him. Think what he could do if his virtue was crippled too!

[Zhou was a king who was deposed in the past] Someone who does violence to the good we call a villain; someone who does violence to the right we call a criminal. A person who is both a villain and criminal we call a scoundrel. I have heard that a scoundrel Zhou has been killed, but have not heard that a lnrd was killed.

Do not honor the worthy, and the people will not compete. Do not value rare treasures, and the people will not stealà Keep the people always without knowledge and without desires, for then the clever will not dare act. Engage in no action and order will prevail.

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at a rules who controls his people by benevolent government would be one who would unify the realm. He proposed definite financial and political measures for easing tax burdens on the people. He believed in the goodness of human nature. The third passage is from the Daoist Laozi, discussed with the Zhuangzi above (Ebrey/Chinese 28). The fourth piece is from Confucius on Humanity (Ebrey/Chinese 20). Confucius (551-479 BC) exerted a profound influence on the development of Chinese culture through his philosophical teachings. He traveled from state to state, trying to find a ruler who would listen to him and given him a high office, but in vain. He had a vision of a more perfect society in which the rulers and their subjects would all accepted their assigned roles in life and devote themselves to their responsibility to others. Confucius revered tradition, and taught the arts to his students and held them to high moral standards. His ideas are known primarily through his sayings written in the Analects, which has the sayings haphazardly spread throughout in no particular order. It is a sacred book, revered by the people. The above section has examined four Chinese philosophical passages. The following section will look
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