A hundred schools
Hundred schools ( 諸子 百家 / 诸子 百家 , zhūzǐ bǎijiā , chu-tzu pai-chia ) is the common name for various Chinese philosophical schools of all schools of thought and their representatives from the pre-Qin period (time of the spring and autumn period and Warring States period ) to the early period of the Han dynasty .
These included:
| Surname | Representative | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Mohism | Mozi |
against feudalism, against family ethics , egalitarian , ascetic traits, utilitarian , "all-embracing love" |
| logician | Gongsun Longzi |
Mohist sub-school, paradoxes |
| Yin-yang school | Zou Yan |
Basic concept of yin and yang |
| Daoism | Lǎozǐ , Zhuangzi |
anti-authority , return to nature, dao |
| Confucianism | Kǒng Zǐ , Mengzi , Xunzi |
feudal core , hierarchical order, heavenly mandate , rites |
| legalism | Guan Zhong , Han Fei |
The law stands above everything, everyone is equal before the law , a strict judicial system |
literature
- Herbert Franke : The Chinese Empire. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1968, ISBN 3-596-60019-7 , pp. 58-69.
Web links
- 100 schools (bai jia)
- Classics of the hundred schools (Chinese and English)
- 先秦 諸子 ‧ 要 覽 子 藉 ( Memento from May 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Many text fragments and newly discovered texts (Chinese)
- Hundred Schools of Thought - ChinaCulture
- Zhou dynasty literature, thought, and philosophy - ChinaKnowledge