Confucius founded Confucianism to spread his ideas of honesty, hard work, and concern for others. Confucianism helped to develop society in major ways one way is his idea of filial piety. Filial piety is the idea of a great amount of respect toward one’s parents. This allowed the parents to rule of their children with less controversy. Confucius once said, “As an offshoot of his parent’s, how dare a child not respect himself.” This is saying that according to filial piety, you must respect yourself since you are a result of your parents. Another idea of Confucianism is it’s patriarchal s

Confucianism also helped to advance the development of the government in Chinese society. “If a ruler is upright, all will go well without orders. But if he himself is not upright, even though he gives orders, they will not be obeyed.” This was Confucius’ main idea on government, he felt that a virtuous man could be the only man that the people would listen to. Therefore, the leader must lead to be an example. Confucius’ second idea about government ties into his respect of education. He thought that the key to a good government was a well-educated government. Therefore under Confucianism, in order to get government jobs, you had to have education.

Daoism, the third philosophy, sought after living in harmony with nature, rather than bringing order to human affairs with its founder Laozi. Daoism rejected the world of conflict and strife, to emphasize the virtue of giving. Daoism greatly impacted on the development of the society, because many people in areas of Daoism, were indebted to it as a philosophy and as a religion. Many people who practiced Daoism became hermits, mystics, artists, and poets to express their loyalty to this philosophy. “The government that governs best, governs least.” These statement explains how Laozi helped to develop government in his time through Daoism. Laozi felt that like “a p

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