RELIGST 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mohism, Taoism, Thought Experiment

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2TT3
• Professor: Mark Rowe

Document Summary

(cid:883). confucian: the good person is the (cid:522)duality(cid:523) of action and intention: four confucian virtues: a. benevolence, righteousness, ritual propriety, and. Wisdom: (cid:886) sprouts that naturally grow within us since birth, recultant to raise if people only have single ability (cid:884). mengzi argue that human nature is good. Not only we have nature, but the nature is necessarily good. E. g: child falling into a well (cid:883). mencius was born (cid:883)(cid:882)(cid:882) yr after confucius (cid:494)death, living from (cid:885)(cid:889)(cid:884) to (cid:884)(cid:890)(cid:891) b. Feel compassion for others lead to the virtue of benevolence (cid:886). a heart of distain for the bad thins lead to righteousness (cid:887). Deference leads to correct mannerism leads to (cid:523)ritual(cid:524) propriety (cid:888). Our approval and disapproval of facts we are told of the world and we decide it with our intuitive sense leads to wisdom. Mozi: impartial good, familya piet, follow tradition because it does good things to one. Comprehensive love(cid:713) loving other(cid:712)may be as not show piet to others(cid:495) fathers.