Intro

• If you want the people to listen you either:

  • Punish

  • Reward

• Not a Moral Philosophy, but a logical philosophy

• Fear works over Morality and Respect

• Fear lasts forever

• People will do whatever they can get away with

• Need tough laws and harsh punishments

• Need to offer material rewards for those who cooperate with the ruler

  • Give land to favorites

• Emperor Shi Huang Di - First emperor to use Legalism

• Qin Dynasty -

  • Gives the first government to China using Legalism

    • Book Burnings of Confucianism

    • Secret Spies / Police

Buddhism

• Siddhartha -

  • Nirvana - Enlightenment leads to an eternal peace

  • Every person is truly the same, everyone is all one person.

  • Father wanted him to be a prince, so he hides him from the rest of the world.

  • He goes outside the walls and sees a sick, then poor and then dying person

  • He ends up under a Bodhi Tree and achieves enlightenment

  • Decided to not go to the greater one, but stay and teach the people.

• Communal - Once achieved enlightenment, or die, you become a part of something greater

• As a single person, you are very small in the ways of society

• Beliefs -

  • Accept Reincarnation until enlightenment

  • Dharma - duty of the soul; a path you must follow to ascend to a higher caste

    • Doing Dharma well raises your good Karma

  • Karma - good and bad deeds follow you through your lives

  • Rejects worship of Hindu Caste

  • Rejects caste system ( Used in India to maintain the rulers )

  • Progress of soul depends on what you do in a life

  • Embrace the Four Noble Truths

    • Suffering is Universal

    • The Cause of Suffering is Desire

    • To End Suffering, One must crush desire

    • Follow the Eight Fold Path

  • Follow the 8 Fold Path

    • Right Belief

    • Right Aspiration or Goal

    • Right Speech

      • Taking out Negativity in Language

      • Makes world more worse

    • Right Conduct

    • Right Livelihood

    • Right Effort

    • Right Mindfulness'

    • Right Meditation

• Broke from Traditional Chinese Society's thinking

• Rejected by Confucians

• Focus on individual not society

• Offered Escape to the Chinese