WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT CHINA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The belief that people were bad by nature & needed to be controlled.
A
Confucianism
B
Legalism
C
Daoism
D
Buddhism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Daoism was the belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled through strict laws and punishments.

Detailed explanation-2: -The three main precepts of these Legalist philosophers are the strict application of widely publicized laws (fa), the application of such management techniques (shu) as accountability (xingming) and “showing nothing” (wuxian), and the manipulation of political purchase (shi).

Detailed explanation-3: -Legalism, or Fajia, is one of the six classical schools of thought in Chinese philosophy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Xunzi’s most famous dictum is that “the nature of man is evil; his goodness is only acquired training.” What Xunzi preached was thus essentially a philosophy of culture.

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