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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