understand history is a complicated mess‚ where recollections of the past can never truly be presented in an accurate manner. History can only be created in the past. All we can do in the present is view periods and events‚ such as the role of Confucianism within the Qing Dynasty‚ through different approaches of writing and thinking about history. In the modern period‚ there has been an ever-growing
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A Comparison of Confucianism to Judaism Confucianism is similar to Judaism in that the requirements of followers are nearly nonexistent‚ but the two religions differ in factors of origin and ideas on gender relations. To begin‚ Confucianism and Judaism originated in entirely different manners. Confucianism was founded in China by Kong Qiu‚ (later Latinized to Confucius)‚ who did not live to see his ideas become an actual religion. Formed in 500 B.C.E.‚ the faith is much younger than Judaism
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Taoism is the first major philosophical and religious tradition explored by Peter Marshall‚ in his book Nature ’s Web. Marshall calls Taoism "the way of nature‚" emphasizing that this is the ideal religion from the perspective of ecological sensibility. Passivity is a key element of Taoist thought‚ and is a repeated concept in the primary Taoist text‚ the Tao Te Ching. The concept of passivity stresses that the wise person will not attempt to cause change in his world‚ but will rather be receptive
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The Chinese ideologies Confucianism and Daoism were similar as they encouraged self-knowledge and influenced art and differed in their ideals about the government and view on what makes a person wise. Confucianism and Daoism both agreed that a person’s individual pursuit of knowledge was important to their success. Confucius‚ the founder of Confucianism‚ enforced the ideas of the essential goodness of each individual and that character‚ not birth was important. He believed that anyone could work
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in viewpoint is the more logical way to examine the Golden Rule. It is foolish for a man to contemplate others actions as outside forces are out of control. What he can control‚ however‚ is the way he chooses to treat himself and that is what makes him into a Gentleman. Confucius focused on the social relationship between men which leads the student to turn inward to examine themselves. The root of Confucianism‚ social harmony‚ begins with one person and their
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actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state” and the definition of Confucianism states; “the system of ethics‚ education‚ and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples‚ stressing love for humanity‚ ancestor worship‚ reverence for parents‚ and harmony in thought and conduct.” Confucianism and Communism has been a long term clash throughout history. However‚ Confucianism and Communism do share some common ground with the beliefs of respecting their elders/ancestors
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Confusion with Confucianism For many‚ the initial thoughts that arise when thinking about religion are of gods and spirits‚ but can practices‚ such as Confucianism‚ that lack these components still be classified as religious? Religion is a difficult word to define and many scholars have opposing opinions on this matter. Anthropologist Clifford Geertz created a definition‚ accepted by some and rejected by others‚ that can be used to determine if something can be included in this classification.
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Legalism and Confucianism. Legalism was a political philosophy that taught that a powerful and efficient government is key to maintain order and control over an empire. This ideology supports the fact that rulers should be strong and govern through force because people are naturally bad. Confucianism‚ on the other hand‚ was preached by a man named Confucius‚ who strongly believed that rulers should be virtuous and lead by a good example. Basically the whole idea behind Confucianism is to keep everything
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indoctrinating Christianity into their constructed idea of self; The east without psychologists or therapists had Confucianism to make sense of life. Philosophy like religion has a main objective that aims to explain what we experience within our reality; maintaining an undertone of contentment with the inevitable fate of death. We will first look at the two schools of thought within Confucianism. There is the idealist perspective that we are naturally good with social influences corrupting
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different philosophy from different areas yet hold striking similarities. The two source documents for this paper are “Meditations” by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and “Analects” by Chinese philosopher Confucius‚ both of which represent Stoicism and Confucianism respectively. These two works were chosen for this paper due to their similarities concerning subjects such as self-improvement thought self-judgment and parallels of what a good person is in order to rule as good leader. Aurelius was trained as
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