Quiz 3 Flashcards
Confucious
551-479 BCE China poverty, struggles Ru Jia tradition of scholars Analects
Socrates and Plato
469/470- 399 VCE
Orphic tradition
Similarities between Confucious and Socrates and Plato
Continue existing traditions
Loyal male followers/ mentees
Metaphysics: Socrates and Plato
2 world view
Becoming (changing) world
Being (ideas; conceptual) world — more real and more valuable
Metaphysics: Confucious
NOT a metaphysical thinker
Accepts that everything is changing
Confucious’ method:
Narrative method of teaching and learning
-Very holistic
-Relationships → person
-Basic unit of humanity: the individual within the group/ family
-Cultural heroes/ exemplars
Hé = Harmony
Hé = Harmony
Culinary term: good cooks blend/ pair ingredients so that they bring out the best in each other
Metaphor for society (bringing out the best in each other)
Ren
“goodness”
-Something we become by cultivating our aesthetic, moral, cognitive, and spiritual sensibilities
Relationships - principle of reciprocity
-We should not do to others as we would not have them do to us
Li
Rules for proper behavior, ritual, custom, etiquette, ceremony, worship, and propriety
- Humans should behave appropriately
- Rules from tradition, but must be personally appropriated
Xiao
filial piety
respect that the young must pay to elders/ ancestors
Kindness, honor, respect, and loyalty among family members
Strong family = basis for a strong society
Yi
“rightness”
What is appropriate or fitting in a given situation
Aesthetic, political, social, religious, and moral implications
Confucious’ students
Yan hui: gave Confucius hope for his lineage/ future -Sudden death Zigong: elegant, subtle thinker Zilu: warrior type Zixia: very literary
Exemplary person
extends love and care beyond family
Justice and morality
Rule with virtue
Someone not of noble blood, but of noble character
