| | Rissho Ankoku Ron - a commentary, part 22 |
 | | Tung Chung-shu’s approach was rather eclectic and he fused certain aspects of Legalist authoritarianism and the cosmology of the Yin Yang school of early Chinese metaphysics with the humanism of Confucius and Mencius in order to create a more comprehensive ideology for the Han rulers. |
 | | In particular, he believed that processes of nature and human life are governed by the forces of yin and yang and due to their interactions the succession of the five primary elements or agents: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. |
 | | Tung Chung-shu (179-104 B.C.), the greatest Confucian scholar of the age, expressed the central idea best when he wrote that the action of man flows into the universal course of heaven and earth and causes reciprocal reverberations in their manifestations. |
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