Chinese_Philosophical_Systems

Chinese Philosophical Systems Chinese Philosophical Systems In the sixth century B.C., in China, feudalism had brought about much chaos. Within this chaos was the roots of Chinese Philosophy. There were three major “schools” of philosophy, Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism. These three different philosophies were each important in the development of Chinese society and government in a big way. Through their teachings, the Chinese people of the time gained many morals and new ideas which helped them progress as a people. Of the many ideas that were brought about in this time, some of them are still even used in governments around the world today. Confucius founded Confucianism to spread his ideas of honesty, hard work, and concern for others. Confucianism helped to develop society in major ways one way is his idea of filial piety. Filial piety is the idea of a great amount of respect toward one’s parents. This allowed the parents to rule of their children with less controversy. Confucius once said, “As an offshoot of his parent’s, how dare a child not respect himself.” This is saying that according to filial piety, you must respect yourself since you are a result of people, government, society, chinese, helped, confucianism, philosophy, legalism, daoism, idea, ideas, development, time, three, therefore, respect, order, less, about, work, ways, teachings, show, place, piety, parents, must, man, laozi, hanfeizi, filial, education, confucius, brought, because, another, world, way, virtue, upright, through, subject, shaped, schools, said, ruler, relationships, projects, person, own