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it sees people’s care for the poor and needy as stemming from virtues or duties rather than imperatives of social equality or justice.

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Rule by the wise instead of rule by many; tends to stress the need for people to cultivate virtues rather than to enjoy rights & liberties

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Confucianism conceives that politics can be successful only if the people in power are virtuous.

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Politics in Confucianism aims to promote certain virtues and social relationships it defines as good

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Some Yin & Yang

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-Adopted values from Shang dynasty
-East Asia
-The Han Dynasty

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Elite classes used marriage to create political alliances

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Fathers held authority over women & children 

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Fathers held authority over women & children 

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(arranged weddings, sold labor of family members)

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Only men could conduct  rituals & make offerings to ancestors

Women could help maintain the household’s ancestral shrines

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Codified this male-female hierarchy

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each individual must act with virtue and serve as a living example to others

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Teaches that people should live in harmony with the “Way of Heaven”

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People are naturally good. Evil is learned.

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People are naturally good. Evil is learned.

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(Believed) If people followed proper conduct, order could be restored

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6th-5th century B.C.E.

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Founded by Kongzi or 'Confucius'