Compare Daoism And Legalism

Amid the warring states period, Ancient China starts to develop different schools of thought but the three ones were Daoism, Confucianism, and Legalism. These three schools had different teachings and ideas that was bestowed upon its followers for them to follow, upheld and pass on to others. Although these schools had separate teachings, Confucianism was taking the most negative reactions because of how others directly disagreed with the teaching of Confucius and his followers. The two notable for doing this were Daoism and Legalism. I will explain how these two school of thoughts that disagreed with Confucius was different in teaching and ideas. Firstly, Confucianism was mainly teaching how to live and ensuring social order and not religious base. One of the most important belief of Confucianism is “Filial piety” which is to respect one parents (Xiao, or Filial Piety). Confucius also had the belief that for a man to lead by example he must be virtuous. Not to mention, he was the first man of ideas that truly in an ethical, philosophical, and moral system that government exit and operates. He was more of an ethical person that rather than metaphysical or theoretical who even urged his followers to be gentlemen’s instead of someone who is petty and live their lives for personal gain. …show more content…
They believed that if you try to improve society only made it worse or as my parents would say “When you try to make something good, you are only making it worse”. The Daoism teaches a philosophy of living in harmony with the yin and yang and truly believed that a good government is one that’s governed the least. The Achievement of happiness and letting go of greed by living according to nature is another believe of Daoism which by the way was influential and said to be created by the legendary Lao