Confucianism Paper Carrie "Shellie" Cobbs World Religious Traditions I REL 133 Robert Mossman July 19‚ 2014 Confucianism Paper Master Kong‚ also known as Confucius‚ began the philosophical and ethical system of Confucianism. Humanitarianism is the core belief of Confucianism. The belief system is based on the philosophy that humans are‚ by nature‚ communal and social beings and that everyone has a specific role to play. The Five Great Relationships and the Five Virtues are concepts followed in
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Classical Comparison Essay During the Ancient times‚ China and India both had their own set of beliefs; Han Wudi excerised Confucianism in China and Ashoka promoted Buddhism in India but Han Wudi was not a lover of Confucian where Ashoka himself practiced Buddhism. However both ruled with a centralized bureaucracy and policed the provinces to maintain order and policies. And lastly‚ neither had strict policies constricting their people nor did they have much of a justified social structure. Every
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political and social reform. He thought that his duty to the Chinese society was to bring back an era when government leaders were righteous‚ virtues were upheld and morals were‚ rightfully observed. It is difficult to classify Confucianism as either religion or philosophy. Confucianism stressed the ways in which people can live together pleasantly and develop an orderly society. The "higher good" doesn’t come from the privileges of birth but of the practice of sensible‚ positive and kind behavior‚ and of
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set up so that the basis of moral decisions was agape love instead of the ideas of legalism and antinomianism. Fletcher based his idea of situation ethics on a throw away comment made by a taxi driver “sometimes you gotta set aside your principles and do the right thing”- this led to him decided that the approach of legalism wasn’t correct as rules aren’t always going to make the correct consequence. Legalism is only concerned with the laws and uses them for a basis in deciding the most moral
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Confucianism How many followers/Where? Is there a God? Sacred element in your religion? One good/many gods? What is the relationship between humans and God? What is the relationship between humans and nature? Major beliefs/foundations The core of Confucianism is humanism (ethical perspective which emphasize the value and agency of human beings‚ individually and collectively‚ and generally prefers individual thought and evidence (rationalism‚ empiricism)‚ over established doctrine or faith
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philosophies that are dominant in the Chinese‚ Korean‚ Japanese‚ and Vietnamese regions and any other places near them. Taoism is the root of all these religions‚ teaching that nature is the greatest teacher and that everything has a flow and a way. Confucianism teaches that without education and social order there can be no religion‚ and the act of learning is the religious experience. Buddhism taught that craving‚ jealously‚ and gluttony will only bring chaos and that good deeds will bring a good life
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Confucianism can save the world with its interpretation of the world but it depends on what context and which crisis we are addressing. Daniel Bell focused on two main issues that are hanging above us right now which are ecological instability of life and equality within states and globally. When these two issues are used to answer the question‚ whether “Can Confucianism Save the World? The answer should be yes. The ecological instability is due to the lack of harmony with nature which can be resolves
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How has Confucianism influenced modern economic development in East Asia? The rise of Asia’s so called “Tiger” economies followed by China‚ has given rise to the spectrum of a distinctly East Asian economic development model. The pioneering economic success of in particular‚ Singapore‚ South Korea and Japan since the 1970’s has highlighted the need to evaluate and distinguish how such economies achieved such successive growth. A variety of possible factors can explain or highlight possibilities
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Confucianism originated in China by Confucius around the year 400 B.C.E. (faithresource.com…). Hinduism was brought to India by the Aryans around the year 1500 B.C.E. (janesvilleparker.org…). Although these two belief systems originated at different times they still share many similarities as well as many differences. Confucianism and Hinduism are two religions that shared many similarities. Such similarities are the idea that both were used as an outline for the way one should live his/her life
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Legal Position of Confucianism in Post-independence Indonesia (By: Heriyanto Yang) Pre-independence historical background The Chinese are believed to have landed on Indonesian soil‚ the then Nusantara archipelago‚ as early as the third century BC. As is the case with almost all groups of immigrants in the world‚ they brought along with them‚ in the course of the centuries‚ their culture‚ beliefs‚ values‚ and a sense of affinity with the motherland. The idea that Confucianism started taking root
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