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Where Religion meets Law? Or just words?

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Where Religion meets Law? Or just words?

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(b) In exercising their power on behalf of the people and in fulfillment of their responsibilities, obligations and service to the people, the legislature, governor, lieutenant governor, executive officers of each department, the chief justice, associate justices, and judges of the appellate, circuit, and district courts may contemplate and reside with the life force and give consideration to the "Aloha Spirit".

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Schleibler - Daoism and the LGBT Community.pdf

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The Inner Cultivation Tradition in Early Daoism.pdf

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Laozi: Ancient Philosopher, Master of Immortality, and God.pdf

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I will go over the expectations for the final paper on Monday, 4/9. It will be comprised of two parts:

1) 4 pages: history/description of canonical Chinese Daoist philosophical texts and ideas (Daodejing, Zhuangzi, Liezi).

2) 4 pages: choose a topic from the syllabus: environmentalism/ecology, gender/feminist issues, cosmology/religion (weeks 14, 16), or prepare another theme that you'd like to write about, and show applications of Daoist philosophy/reasoning to modern day issues.

Write down your topic and a selection of sources you will use and bring it to class.

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Deities and Ancestors in the Early Oracle Inscriptions.pdf

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Starting in May, Chinese citizens who rank low on the country's burgeoning "social credit" system will be in danger of being banned from buying plane or train tickets for up to a year, according to statements recently released by the country's National Development and Reform Commission.

With the social credit system, the Chinese government rates citizens based on things like criminal behavior and financial misdeeds, but also on what they buy, say, and do. Those with low "scores" have to deal with penalties and restrictions. China has been working towards rolling out a full version of the system by 2020, but some early versions of it are already in place.

Previously, the Chinese government had focused on restricting the travel of people with massive amounts of debt, like LeEco and Faraday Future founder Jia Yueting, who made the Supreme People's Court blacklist late last year.

The new travel restrictions are the latest addition to this growing patchwork of social engineering, which has already imposed punishments on more than seven million citizens. And there's a broad range when it comes to who can be flagged. Citizens who have spread "false information about terrorism," caused "trouble" on flights, used expired tickets, or were caught smoking on trains could all be banned, according to Reuters.

But the system, as it stands, is opaque; citizens are seemingly just as likely to be flagged for minor infractions like leaving bikes parked in a footpath or issuing apologies that are deemed "insincere" as major credit defaulters like Jia. And it's often unclear whether they're on a blacklist in the first place, let alone what kind of recourse is available. "Chinese government authorities clearly hope to create a reality in which bureaucratic pettiness could significantly limit people's rights," Maya Wang, senior researcher for the non-profit NGO Human Rights Watch, wrote in December.

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China will ban people with poor 'social credit' from planes and trains

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Starting in May, Chinese citizens who rank low on the country's burgeoning "social credit" system will be in danger of being banned from buying plane or train tickets for up to a year, according to statements recently released by the country's National Development and Reform Commission.

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IP MAN 3-Donnie Yen vs Mike Tyson (Wing Chun vs Boxing)#Must watch

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You have the choice to either turn in your paper to me by the due date OR to a peer (from this class), who will review your work and make suggestions, which you will use to refine your paper.

Regular Due Date: 4/1

Peer Review Due Date: 4/8

For peer review, you must (each) turn in 1) Your original document 2) The document with their comments 3) The final document

This extra credit counts for 10 points added to your Short Essay #2 score.

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Relate themes in this film to themes we've discussed in class. Use specific examples from the film and from the readings. (This film is available on Netflix.)

This extra credit counts for 2 points added to your total Reflection score - each reflection is 1 point.

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Short Essay #2
Choose one or two topics

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3/12-4/30

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Zhuangzi Selections

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C Hansen Selection

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Zhuangzi Bk. 5-6 So, is everything just a cosmic joke? knowing what you don't know... life and death are the same... use the light to see the darkness... Does the Zhuangzi tell us anything about the world or how we ought to be? Or was he just trolling Confucius?

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Zhuangzi - Rambling Without a Destination We imagine that we're 'going somewhere' with our lives. We are all simultaneously making and following dao (a way toward understanding the movement of the cosmos and the cosmos itself) We spend a lot of time laying out goals (paving our path) and are anxious to keep moving.

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Not the best translation we have, but it's still ok.

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Inner Chapters (內篇) - full text database, fully browsable and searchable on-line; discussion and list of publications related to Inner Chapters. In English and simplified and traditional Chinese.

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The basic writings of Chuang Tzu have been savored by Chinese readers for over two thousand years. And Burton Watson's lucid and beautiful translation has been loved by generations of readers.Chuang Tzu (369?-286? B.C.) was a leading philosopher representing the Taoist strain in Chinese thought. ...

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I put one of the optional texts for the class, Burton Watson's translation of the Zhuangzi, on hold at the UHH library if you would prefer to read a bound book rather than the electronic file. I am too attached to my Graham translation to part with it...

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A.C. Graham translation

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The Zhuangzi 莊子 (Chuang-Tzu) newer Romanization: pinyin - Dao (Tao) Late 4th Century BC After/Featuring Confucius What if this is a dream? Do you ever feel like someone is watching you? Why do people who are the best at something seem to do it effortlessly and everyone who is not good at it tries so hard?

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Today, everyone is a "victim."

Everyone has to watch everything they say to avoid offending or "triggering" other people. Social media has become an outlet through which people both offend and become offended, victimize others and become victims themselves.

People constantly drown in their victimization while ignoring the life rings thrown toward them. They get so focused on their ownsituations that they forget that other people need help just to survive every day.

Naturally, we all have struggles that are frustrating and may lead us to small moments of self-pity. Most of the time we pick ourselves up again and move on with our lives. However, there are some people who decide to make their homes in their self-pity and stay there. This phenomenon is called the Martyr Complex (a.k.a. Victim mentality, Victim identity).

As Dr. Andrea Mathews from Psychology Today puts it, "A person with a Victim identity is someone who has identified with whatever crises, traumas, illnesses, or other difficulties [that] have occurred in their lives, especially those that began very early in life." It contains an extremely pessimistic, self-centric point of view that revolves around the "life is hard, people always target me, no one can understand me, the world is against me" outlook on life.

Whoever has this Martyr Complex always has a "worse" situation than anyone else and therefore sees him- or her-self as justified in their self-pity. It makes life easier to deal with when you blame everything happening to you on everyone else instead of taking responsibility for your own actions, right?

People with this Victim mentality manipulate other people to attend to their needs and take care of them. They might do things such as ask you how to fix their life, then refuse your suggestions or "try" them and say nothing works because of their situation which is, of course, not understood by anybody.

This keeps you in a loop of looking for more solutions and being rejected and feeling guilty because you want to help your friend but nothing will work. That guilt makes sure you stay connected with that person or something worse could happen and you would feel responsible.

An example would be a girlfriend claiming that she will commit suicide if her boyfriend breaks up with her. That forces responsibility on the boyfriend to stay with her; if he breaks up with her, her suicide would be "his" fault. As a result, he stays with her regardless of whether he wants to or not out of guilt.

Ironically, the Victim, in the manipulative sense, becomes a Bully by controlling people to constantly focus on taking care of him or her. When someone refuses to comply with the Victim's wants, the Bully side then comes out to make that person feel guilty.

People with this mentality do not take responsibility for their actions. They blame those around them for all of their problems when, in reality, most of their problems can be solved by recognizing their role in causing or prolonging those problems. Taking responsibility for your own actions, learning from your mistakes, and moving on from the past is the best way to avoid becoming the Victim.

If you have a friend who seems to fit the description of a Victim and nothing seems to help, remember this fact: While you are responsible for your own actions and how you treat others, you are not responsible for the actions of others. You are on this Earth to live People can only be helped as far as they want to help themselves. your life, not that of another.

This does not mean that everyone who goes through tough times has the Victim mentality. Traumatic events, grief, friend troubles, and many other situations cause genuine pain and can have lasting and devastating effects, but sitting in that pain and letting it become your only defining trait is how you get the harmful Victim identity.

Life means getting knocked down and getting up again. Sometimes we pull ourselves up and sometimes we need a helping hand to pull us up. We can either decide to be stronger and move on with our lives or we can stay down and let situations push us around without doing anything about it.

Strength of character is becoming scarcer as more people take things personally and refuse to drop the issue by, say, making passive-aggressive (or full-on aggressive) posts on social media.

Every single person has done things that maybe hurt other people or that they are not proud of, and every single person has been hurt by other people.

Accept that fact, try not to hurt others, and live your life.

Be strong in the face of adversity. Do something real.

Focus on fixing the problems on this Earth more than simply posting about them. Stop being the Victim.

Start being the Victor.

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This Quote Perfectly Explains Why "Men Need Feminism, Too"

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Today, everyone is a "victim." Everyone has to watch everything they say to avoid offending or "triggering" other people. Social media has become an outlet through which people both offend and become offended, victimize others and become victims themselves. People constantly drown in their victimization while ignoring the life rings thrown toward them.

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道德經 and the problem of language 1. Translation 2. Interpretation 4. Consistency 3. Meaning How much are we simply missing out on? 2. Classical Chinese grammar lacks plural/singular, articles, and focuses on verbs instead of nouns. Suggestion: Instead of [the] dao, think of it as [a] dao or dao[s], depending on the context.

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The Daodejing 道德經 3. Political context as rejoinder 2. Process cosmology and complementary opposites 1. Classical Chinese characters & grammar 4. Religious context and naming 5. Naturalness, simplicity, and spontaneity, and negation

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Week 4 1/29: None

Week 5 2/5: Emylia B. & Jesse T.

Week 6 2/12:  Kyle U.

Week 8 2/26: Caesar M. & Jaster A.

Week 9 3/5: BreAnna B.

Week 10 3/12: Long Ip

Week 11 3/19: Tahigwa S & Corissa H.

Week 13 4/2: No Class

Week 14 4/9: Dylan G. & Jacob S.

Week 15 4/16: Connie R. & Callye

Week 16 4/23: Aaron F. & Grant

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Introduction to Daoist Philosophies is available electronically through the UHH library.

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Introduction to Daoist Philosophies is available electronically through the UHH library.

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https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=492&recCount=50&recPointer=1&bibId=4613415

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Submission of discussion questions/topics to me via email by Sunday evening before class (in addition to a summary of readings) 10 pt.

Relevance of discussion questions/topics to course material 10 pt.

Shown mastery of course material during discussion 10pt.

“Scratching beneath the surface”; moderating and encouraging a deep and sustained inquiry into the topic 10 pt.

Bringing in relevant and thoughtful examples/insights 10 pt.

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Be sure to submit your summary & reflection for the course material by the Sunday before class. 1 page single-spaced (12pt Times New Roman font 1" margins)

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(this isn't me... I just grabbed a dance video from youtube)