1. Themes
In Chinese Philosophy

2. The End of Feudal China Collapse of Zhou Dynasty
Disintegration of state
Social disorder
Rise of independent
kingdoms

3. The Hundred Schools of Thought
Only Six were important
School of Names (名家, míngjiā)
Yin-Yang School (陰陽家, yīnyángjiā)
Confucianism (儒家, rújiā)
Taoism (道家, dàojiā)
Mohism (墨家, mòjiā)
Legalism (法家, fǎjiā)

4. The Social Order Looking for the Way to behave
Dào (道)
The goal is to promote Harmony

5. Nostalgia Unity: China ought to be a single state with one ruler
He has the Mandate of Heaven (天命, tiānmìng)
He is the Son of Heaven (天子 tiānzì)
He rules all Under Heaven (天下, tiān xià)
Note: Heaven is partly a divinity and partly Nature

6. Nostalgia BC2200-771 5 emperors, Xia, Shang, Zhou 771-221
Spring & Autumn, Warring States
Qin, Han
3 kingdoms, Jin, North and South
Sui, Tang
5 dynasties, 10 kingdoms
Song
Song, Jin
Yuan, Ming, Qing

7. Nostalgia Precedent: the preferred validator The Five Emperors Yu (禹)
The Yellow Emperor (黃帝, huángdì)
Zhuānxū (顓頊)
Dì Kù (帝嚳)
Yao (堯)
Shun (舜)
Yu (禹)

8. Nostalgia Precedent: the preferred validator The Five Classics
Classic of Changes (易經, Yi Jīng).
Classic of Poetry (詩經, Shī Jīng).
Classic of History (書經, Shū Jīng).
Book of Rites (禮記 Lǐ Jì).
Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋 Chūn Qiū).

9. Nostalgia
The centrality of the family

10. Idealisation of Nature
Nature has a Yin-Yang duality
The alternation of the two creates cycles

11. Human Nature Is Man Good or Bad? Every man should aim to be a
sage (聖, shèng)