[PHIL 202] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (29 pages long!)
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Transliteration: pin yin, and wade giles, the former being currently more popular. Means that two words may have the same meaning but different spellings (see below). Asian conception of heaven retains some of the moral connotations of western heaven. Asia(cid:374) hea(cid:448)e(cid:374) is the a(cid:271)ode of o(cid:374)e"s a(cid:374)(cid:272)estors: to follo(cid:449) the de(cid:272)ree of a(cid:374)(cid:272)estors is to a(cid:272)t. Heaven/decree (commands) of heaven: the asian philosophical hea(cid:448)e(cid:374) is (cid:374)ot god"s ho(cid:373)e, like it is in western culture. Rather, it serves as a contrast to earth: heaven is good, right, but this does (cid:374)ot (cid:373)ea(cid:374) that earth is (cid:862)(cid:271)ad(cid:863) or (cid:862)(cid:449)ro(cid:374)g(cid:863). Rather, earth is see(cid:374) as a pla(cid:272)e of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) choice one can choose to act rightly or wrongly. When things are well in the world, the earth will follow the way of heaven and is in harmony with heaven. Man should choose to follow the way of heaven and be one with the totality of the world. rightly; ancestors are to be worshipped.
