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Eastern Zhou China
Historical setting · 2 readings
Consider how weakening royal authority and inherited Zhou forms give the Analects’ account of cultivation a political setting.
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Guided course · Module 4 · Lesson 14
Concern beyond one’s own circle
The Mohists argue that partiality leads to conflict and that outsiders’ welfare must count, and they turn the argument against conquest. Concern for everyone, the lesson shows, need not mean identical affection or treatment.
Guided course · Module 4 · Lesson 13
Learning to become humane
Selected passages of the Analects suggest how learning and ritual might form humane conduct. Why can a correct performance fail to express care, and how can such teachings preserve unequal authority?