Most societies in early World history have created rules, guidelines, principles and religious teachings that control how people in those societies should live and act. At the same time, individuals have seemed to always seek freedoms within those societies, and have sometimes come into conflict with the restrictions placed on them by those rules. Hammurabi’s code, Confucius’s analects, and the Bible all have clear rules and regulations that state how an individual should live, while still allowing certain freedoms to their followers.
Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon, the world's first metropolis from 1795 to 1750 BC. The most remarkable artifact discovered from Hammurabi’s reign was his code of laws, the earliest-known example of a ruler declaring public laws to his people, presented on an eight foot tall black stone monument in the epicenter of the town so that all Babylonian inhabitants could see. The code clearly regulates the organization of society by listing laws and their coinciding punishment should they break said laws. Hammurabi’s Code is known to have taken a brutal approach to punishment, but the level of severity of the punishment truly depended on the class/gender of both the lawbreaker and the victim. Certain punishments for the same crime can be harsher if the perpetrator is a woman or in a lower social class. While …show more content…
The analects portray Confucius as a man, and describe some major life events. It includes twenty books, each generally featuring a series of chapters that encompass quotes from Confucius. Much of the work concerns itself with the concept of the Way, the gentleman, ritual, virtue, and goodness. There are additional terms in the work, but those are the core concepts. When they are composed together they form the backbone of Confucian ideals. These are the guidelines that someone who practices Confucianism would
Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon, the world's first metropolis from 1795 to 1750 BC. The most remarkable artifact discovered from Hammurabi’s reign was his code of laws, the earliest-known example of a ruler declaring public laws to his people, presented on an eight foot tall black stone monument in the epicenter of the town so that all Babylonian inhabitants could see. The code clearly regulates the organization of society by listing laws and their coinciding punishment should they break said laws. Hammurabi’s Code is known to have taken a brutal approach to punishment, but the level of severity of the punishment truly depended on the class/gender of both the lawbreaker and the victim. Certain punishments for the same crime can be harsher if the perpetrator is a woman or in a lower social class. While …show more content…
The analects portray Confucius as a man, and describe some major life events. It includes twenty books, each generally featuring a series of chapters that encompass quotes from Confucius. Much of the work concerns itself with the concept of the Way, the gentleman, ritual, virtue, and goodness. There are additional terms in the work, but those are the core concepts. When they are composed together they form the backbone of Confucian ideals. These are the guidelines that someone who practices Confucianism would