RELS 108: Confucianism
21 Cards in this Set
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Age of Grand Harmony
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Opening phase of the Chou Dynasty. The best way of living.
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Period of Warring States
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How do we keep from destroying ourselves?
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Realists
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Devise laws that clearly establish what will and will not be tolerated and attach them with severe penalties to deter infractions. It could restrain misconduct, but would not change attitudes.
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Mo Ti
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Advocated the opposite of force, namely love..... But, Love needs the help of social structures and a collective ethos.
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Kung Fu Tzu
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Referred to as the First Teacher in China. Quietly taught and edited the classics of China’s past.
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The Analects
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The most important text in Confucianism
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Jen
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The ideal relationship between individuals. Diligence, courtesty, unselfishness, and empathy.
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Chun Tzu
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A fully realized human being. The ideal attitude towards others is repect and empathy.
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Li
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Propriety (proper behavior) and Ritual (the way prescribed behavior orchestrates one's life).
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5 Constant Relationships
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A parent is to be loving, child obedient.
An elder sibling is to be gentle, younger respectful
Husbands are to be good/fair, wives understanding
Older friends are to be considerate, younger reverential.
Rulers should be benevolent, subjects loyal.
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Respect for Age
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Young tend to the old. A Chinese could look forward to being served more, and listened to more, with every passing year, and to some extent the terrors of aging would be offset
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Rectification of Names
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social roles should be defined
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Doctrine of the Mean
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a middle course between unworkable extremes, brings harmony and balance
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Wen
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the arts of peace. arts power to ennoble the human spirit. As knowledge grows so does the country.
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Self
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__ Is the center of relationships
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Mandate of Heaven
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his right to rule - only insofar as he rules well
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Concentric Circles
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Self > family > community > nation > humanity > empathy for all things
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Confucianism as a religion?
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reverence toward Heaven (Tien) and the worship of ancestors.
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Social emphasis
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social effectiveness for getting things done on a large scale
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Negotiation/Mediation vs Litigation
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Against impersonal courts of law. Things should be worked out thru compromise.
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Success of China
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Scientific technology + social technology
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RELS 108: Confucianism