... be abolished: and the Great Unity of the world should be developed. Confucius did not intend to found a new religion, but to interpret and revive the unnamed religion of the Zhou dynasty, under which many people thought the ancient system of religious rule was bankrupt; why couldn't the gods prevent the social up heavel The burning issue of the day was ... enduring social order? The dominant view of the day was that strict law and statecraft were the bases of sound policy. C fucius, however believed that the basis lay in the Zhou religion, in its rituals. He interpreted these not as sac...

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... rejected. Facilitating intercultural contact through broadening knowledge of the world and promoting the skills needed for cross-cultural cooperation and understanding.' (Guidelines for managing cultural and linguistic diversity in schools, D.E.E.T, Vic, 2001) Commonwealth policies on Multicultural education since 1996 have tended to emphasise the notion of 'core values' which is a reflection of the Howard governments' concern with social cohesion. The ... ...

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... China, and the Shang Dynasty proved to be similar to the Greco-Roman civilization. Estates owned by the elite were staffed by slaves, and villagers were taxed by emperors. The Zhou Dynasty was a period of civil war and Confucianism, created by the upper class. Life was full of pleasures and luxuries for the upper class, but the lower class suffered from ... ...

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