Confucianism, also known as
Ruism, is described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a way of life. Confucianism developed from what was later called the
Hundred Schools of Thought from the teachings of the
Chinese philosopher Confucius (551–479 BCE), who considered himself a retransmitter of the values of the
Zhou dynasty golden age of several centuries before.
[2] In the
Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE), Confucian approaches edged out the "proto-Taoist"
Huang-Lao, as the official ideology while the emperors mixed both with the realist techniques of
Legalism. The disintegration of the Han political order in the second century CE opened the way for the doctrines of
Buddhism and
Neo-Taoism, which offered
spiritual explanations lacking in Confucianism.
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