Lecture17 Han Confucianism Nov 3 Chinese Philosophy Lectures杜兰大学中国哲学课堂教学PPT.ppt

PHIL 2931 Han Confucianism Schedule Chinese History: from Ch’in Dynasty to Ming Dynasty (221BC to 1644 AD) Particular History from Ch’in to Han Han Confucianism: Tung Chung-Shu董仲舒 Significances After Warring States Period Warring States Period = Period with many states in China, and many schools of thought; none of them is “official” Then China has been united, and have many different dynasties. (See the maps and the tables). Chronology of Dynasties See the Table /history/time_line.html Ch’in (Qin) Han Three Kingdom, Jin, to Southern and Northern Dynasties Sui and Tang Sung (Song) Ming Schools Han Confucianism Neo-Taoism (Three Kingdom to S. and N Dynasties) Chinese Buddhism (in Siu and Tang) Sung-Ming Confucianism Some General Significances Comparative to Chou Dynasty, there are fewer schools of thoughts! (Even the period is much longer: less than 500 years vs. near 2000 years) “Eclectic Tendency” (Fung 183-187) Thoughts on Unification and Separation of China (prefer unification rather than separation) (Fung 188-190; also 178-181) Centralized Government Ch’in united China in 221 B.C. (Fung 178-181) Chou Dynasty: “Feudal system” Starting from Ch’in Dynasty: “Centralized Government System” Every place is belonged to the Emperor. The power is much more concentrated in the hand of the emperor More and more centralized in the history of China (until 1911, or even today) Unification of Thoughts in Ch’in Burning Books and Killing Scholars (Fung 204-205) Thoughts from Li Ssu and Han Fei Tzu. “save works on medicine, pharmacy, divination…” (That’s why I-Ching can be saved?) Many “fake books” or “false information” coming out in this period (i.e., they are not really the thoughts in classical period, but modern thoughts in Han). Some even become doctrines in China (e.g. “The Doctrine of Mean,” “The Great Learning,” “Commentaries in I-Ching”) Old and New Text Schools (Fung 207-209) Unification of Thoughts in Han (Fung 205-207) Emperor Wu of Han accepted the suggestion f