RELIGST 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Analects, Tao Te Ching, Taoism
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Analects (cid:498)ren(cid:499) is the signature part of confucian. The world of nature is the center of everything, but not very important in confucian. )n daoism, the ritual is declined at the end. Mozi"s central critic to analects: junzi )t is equivalent to cadre=communism official, from french. He does not junzi concept. (e wants worthy man. Mengism (e hates mozi (cid:498)he does have father or ruler. (e is abandoned(cid:499) (e got mozi in target. Key terms to human nature, how does him define it? (cid:883). Compared to water, the tendency to flow down. (uman nature flow toward social virtue (cid:498)the potential of benevolence is found in the empathetic (cid:523)ren(cid:524)(cid:498) He talks virtues, the confucian talks about, into two category: term of value: righteousness, benevolence terms of installation: need to combine together. Benevolence, righteousness and other qualities need to go together, like wanter need to go with mountain.