Belief Systems (Exam Version) Flashcards

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Confucianism

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  • People are naturally good and should concentrate on improving their behavior and what they know is Right
  • Five relationships: ruler and subject, husband and wife, older sibling and younger sibling, parent and child, friend and friend
  • Developed in China
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Legalism

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  • The belief that people are bad by nature and need to be controlled
  • Clear laws with punishments and rewards
  • china
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Daoism

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  • People can gain peace and happiness by becoming one with nature (dao)
  • True harmony comes from balancing the opposite forces of nature (yin and yang)
  • Opposed to organized government
  • Encouraged meditation and self reflection
    China
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Buddhism

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Anyone can gain salvation and wisdom by letting go of desire’

  • All life is suffering
  • Suffering comes from desire
  • One must limit desire to limit suffering
  • To limit suffering one must follow the eight fold path
  • No gods
  • Meditation
  • India
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Islam

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  • Allah (God) is all powerful and all knowing, Muhammad (Allah’s prophet) preached his word and carried his message
  • Submit to Gods rule, spread God’s rule, lead a virtuous life
  • Prayer
  • Admission of obedience to god
  • Quran
  • Arabia
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Hinduism

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  • (Samsara) endless repeating cycle in which souls are reincarnated through a continual process of rebirth
  • (Karma) actions in ones life
    (Moksha) State of liberation, bliss, and awareness in which one achieved union with brahman
  • Many Gods
  • Caste system
  • Prayer
  • The Veda
  • Started in Northern India
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Judaism

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  • one god
  • covenant
  • Ten commandments
  • Torah
  • Spread through diasporas
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Christianity

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  • Jesus
  • god
  • Ten commandments
  • look forward to jesus’s imminent return
  • bible
    Church leaders used romans roads to spread faith
  • diff interpretations of bible led to different sects
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