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CHINESE PHILOSOPHY ("love of wisdom")
Chinese philosophy has passed through three distinct historical stages:
The Classical Age: a creative period from the 6th to the 2nd century BC;
The Medieval Age: from the 2nd century BC to the 11th century AD, a period of synthesis and absorption of foreign thoug ....
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.... for the chief of the district in which he lived.
HIS CARREER(S): WHERE HE PUT HIS THOUGHTS INTO ACTION.
His mother died in 527 BC, and after a period of mourning he began his career as a teacher, usually traveling about and instructing the small body of disciples that had gathered around him. His fame as a man of learning and character and his reverence for Chinese ideals and customs soon spread through the principality of Lu.
Living as he did in the second half of the Chou dynasty (circa 1027-256 BC), when feudalism and corruption in China were rampant, ....
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