Chinese Philosophy

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The "Axial age" (roughly 800-200 BCE)

The debates of the 100 philosophical schools (400-200 BCE)

Confucius

Mozi

Confucius' disciple: Mencius

Laozi: Daodejing

Laozi's disciple: Zhuangzi

Legalism: The Book of Lord Shang and Han Feizi

Confucius' disciple: Xunzi and logic

Moral cultivation through ritual and morality as natural - answers by Confucius and Mencius

The importance of self-cultivation – Daoist and Confucian answers

Excourse

Law and bureaucracy - the legalist answers and historical achievements

Chan (Sanskrit: dhyana, Japanese: Zen, English: Meditation)-Buddhism

Review: Contribution of the main ancient Chinese philosophers to global thinking