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The Analects of Confucius

http://www.hm.tyg.jp/~acmuller/contao/analects.html

Read the first three sections of the Analects. What are the central concerns addressed in these texts? What can they tell us about the Period of the Warring States?
How would you characterize the philosophy of the Analects? Is it similar to a religious text such as the Gathas? Why or why not?

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The Daodejing

http://www.chinapage.com/gnl.html

Read the first ten chapters of the Daodejing. How does it compare to the Analects? What does this text tell us about the Period of the Warring States?
Is the Daodejing a political text? Why or why not?

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Legalism

http://www.historyteacher.net/GlobalHistory-1/Readings/TheLegalistRuler-FromHanFeizi.htm
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/hanfei.html

Read these two excerpts from Han Feizi, a Legalist theorist. How do they compare to the Analects and the Daodejing? What would you describe as the central ideology of these two texts?






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