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Confucianism
Confucius' Life
Question: Approx. what year was Confucius born?
Answer: 550 BCE
Question: Approx. what year did Confucius die?
Answer: 480 BCE
Question: What was the name for Confucius' most known interpreter?
Answer: Mencius
Question: What school was Confucius affiliated with?
Answer: Ju
Question: What classic did Confucius write?
Answer: Spring/Autumn Records
Vocab
Question: jen
Answer: harmony, compassion, benevolence
Question: yi
Answer: righteousness, justice, virtue
Question: li
Answer: golden will
Question: chung
Answer: middle, not too much nor too little, the correct path of the world
Question: yung
Answer: ordinary, mediocrity, the unchangeable
Six Classics
Question: what was the major contribution with the publication of the Book of Change?
Answer: formed the way of thinking in China
Question: Which classic has scholars debating its existence?
Answer: Music
Question: This book is also known as the Book of Rituals
Answer: Li
Question: Which book contains folk history, popular history, and is approx. 300 songs/poems?
Answer: Poetry
Question: During what dynasty did Confucius edit the first five classics?
Answer: Zhou
Who said it?
Question: Confucius said: “Girls and inferior men are hard to get alongwith. If you get familiar with them, they lose their humility; if you aredistant, they resent it.”
Answer: True
Question: Mencius said: “By nature men are alike. Through practice they have become far apart.”
Answer: False- Confucius
Question: Mencius said: Why do you say that humanity isinternal and righteousness external?
Answer: True
Question: Confucius said: “If you let people follow theirfeelings, they will be able to do good.”
Answer: False- Mencius
Question: Confucius said : “Friendship is one mind in two bodies”
Answer: False- Mencius
Themes in the Analects
Question: Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you
Answer: Golden rule
Question: Leading by virtue and rule of propriety
Answer: Government
Question: “the common people may be made to follow it but may not be made to understand it”
Answer: Way (Tao)
Question: A man who regards righteousess for the substance of everything
Answer: The Superior man
Question: The dominant themes (2), given equal emphasis, throughout Confucian teachings
Answer: Knowledge and action