>>511430797
I don't think confucianism has much of a use outside of a chinese cultural context, it's pretty specific to chinese cultural norms and customs, you can take some moral lessons from it sure but most of it only applies to china, it's important to understand though if you want to understand chinese culture though, daoism is a lot more individualistic so it's a lot easier to apply outside of a chinese context, that said daoism is kind of gnosticism tier meme status, I don't think people nowadays take daosim too seriously, it's more like people just enjoy it because it's funny
>>511431260
in terms of dates sure theravada and catholicism were first, then mahayana and protestantism followed later, but in terms of content and practice mahayana is like catholicism (populist), and theravada is like protestantism (fundamentalist)

>>714672768
I think these sort of things are easier to understand if you know some cultural context, in ancient china there were a lot of nerds debating what's the correct way of living and governing, out of which the 4 major schools of thought emerged, legalism, confucianism, taoism and mohism, legalism says that social hierarchy is important, and it should be structured strictly around pragmatism, morals, virtues, traditions are all silly and irrelevant, you just do what works (the ccp are just legalists who are cosplaying as communists), confucianism also says that social hierarchy is important but say that it should be structured around morals and virtue, leading by good example, traditions and family ties (the kmt was confucianist, the chinese civil war was in reality between legalists, the ccp, and confucianists, the kmt), and then taoists say that social hierarchies in general are stupid and unneeded, instead of collectivism promised by legalists and confucianists you should be working towards cultivating yourself as an individual, to be an ascended sage who's not bothered by the worldly matters and is in tune with the tao, ridding yourself of all worries and anxieties, they sometimes form communities, usually around "sorcerers" but generally taoists are hermits who live alone in the woods and tell the polceman that taxes are a violation of wu wei (non agression pact), and mohists were basically hippies, saying that all this stuff about society, hierarchies, traditions, the tao and so on are just sophistry, all you need to do is love your fellow man, if everyone just loved each other from their heart then all of the world's problems will be solved, love and peace all! (mohists dissolved 2000 years ago)