Obsession with Confucius by Sakshi Sharma https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl Made with a quick smile en-us 2018-11-15 19:08:55 UTC 2018-11-21 19:26:06 UTC hello@padlet.com sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304979385 2018-11-15 19:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304979385 Quote sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304979551 "... first person to devote his whole life to learning and teaching for the purpose of transforming and improving society... inaugurated a humanities program for potential leaders, opened the doors of education to all...]]> 2018-11-15 19:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304979551 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304979964 First teacher in China who wanted to make education widely available - make teaching a job. When before aristocrats would hire tutors]]> 2018-11-15 19:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304979964 What sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304980187 Influenced civilization of East Asia]]> 2018-11-15 19:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304980187 Who sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304980595 Teacher, philosopher, political theorist]]> 2018-11-15 19:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304980595 Where sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304980992  Born in Qufu in state of Lu- present day Shandong Province]]> 2018-11-15 19:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304980992 Born sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304981275 Born 551 BCE - 479 BCE]]> 2018-11-15 19:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304981275 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304983067
  •  found public service integral to true education. 
  • his desire to serve the world
  • opted to try to transform the world from within.
  •  tried to be actively involved in politics, wishing to put his ideas into practice through governmental
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  • served as magistrate
  • assistant manager of public works
  • minister of justice
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  • superiors uninterested in his policies,
  •  left country  to find another feudal state to which he could render his service. 
  •  accompanied by an expanding circle of students during  self-imposed exile 
  • His reputation as a man of vision and mission spread. 
    • ]]>     2018-11-15 19:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304985740     sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304988109 2018-11-15 19:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304988109 Facts sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304988402
  • Aristocrat but grew in poverty 
  • Teacher of Morals 
  • Disgusted by ruler in his hometown - pleasure seeker ways he left to find a worthy ruler to serve
    • ]]>     2018-11-15 19:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304988402     sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304990334 contrary to the time he dissuaded rulers from relying on harsh punishments and military power to govern. Importance of good ethics and family. Family > State]]> 2018-11-15 19:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304990334 During Travels sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304991010 - starved
    - imprisoned
    - Life threaten often 
    - Not better/ faithful
    - Failed to find proper ruler to work for returned home
    - influential philosopher and teacher 
    - Shaped Chinese Culture

    ]]>     2018-11-15 19:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304991010     Confucius Summarized sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304992503 "Do not inflict upon others that which you yourself would not want"

    being moral and respecting a hierarchical societal structure, that Confucius is best known for.

    ]]>     2018-11-15 19:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304992503     sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304993258 2018-11-15 19:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304993258 The Analects sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304993526 His works collected and made into book]]> 2018-11-15 19:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304993526 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304994326 Antidote to today's problems; His rules
    1. Ceremony is Important
      - valued ritual propriety
    -make intentions clear and tell us how to behave]]>     2018-11-15 19:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304994326     Rules sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304995419 2. Treat parents with reverence
    -obey,care, mourn, sacrifice
    -filial piety

    ]]>     2018-11-15 19:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304995419     sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304995963 3. Be obedient to honorable people
     -be modest to recognize people's experience and knowledge may outweigh our own.
    4. Cultivate knowledge > Creativity
     - general knowledge is key

    ]]>     2018-11-15 19:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304995963     5 constant Virtues sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304997261 benevolence
    righteousness
    integrity
    ritual propriety
    wisdom]]>     2018-11-15 19:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304997261     sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304997950 follow his teachings today
    shaped eastern standards for morality, obedience and good leadership]]>     2018-11-15 19:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304997950     sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304998701 talked a lot about sheep and parents. Most anecdotes revolve around sheep]]> 2018-11-15 19:42:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304998701 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304999360 Confucious’ most prominent legacy, that is still seen today in China, is filial piety and a family based social structure.]]> 2018-11-15 19:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304999360 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304999453 2018-11-15 19:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304999453 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304999760 "The degree to which someone can contribute to their familial obligations, is considered proportionate to the degree to which they commit to themselves to society."]]> 2018-11-15 19:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/304999760 Influence of his teachings sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/305000250  influence on law 
    •  entire families where executed if one member attempted to assassinate or disobey the Emperor 
    •  individuals committed equally treacherous crimes against the government were given distasteful surnames -effect on upcoming generations.
    ]]>     2018-11-15 19:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/305000250     Influence Society sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/305003687 anger/punishment- trickle-down effect. those at the bottom of hierarchy received the brutality of those above them.]]> 2018-11-15 19:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/305003687 Influence Filial Piety sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/305004254 “leftover women” in China.

    China draconian treatment of women

     today,  reflected in concerns about a woman’s ability to maintain livelihood and potentially marry 

    idea that men are superior, men care for the family,
    Well educated, single women in their late 20s are called “leftover women” in China

    ]]>     2018-11-15 19:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/305004254     Quote sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/305005684 "If we combine this moral code of behaviour with a hierarchical political structure made up of superiors-subordinates, then both individuals and society will be harmonious, peaceful, and approved of by Heaven."]]> 2018-11-15 19:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/305005684 Summary sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/305006409  essentially renowned in Asia for providing a theory of social cohesion and personal fulfillment.]]> 2018-11-15 19:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/305006409 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/305007361 2018-11-15 20:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/305007361 Answer 1 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306078495 Confucianism is a worldview, a social ethic, a political ideology, a scholarly tradition, and a way of life.

    Sometimes viewed as a philosophy and sometimes as a religion, Confucianism may be understood as an all-encompassing way of thinking and living that entails ancestor reverence and a profound human-centred religiousness.]]>     2018-11-19 19:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306078495     Question 1 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306079038 Confucianism didn’t exist until way after Confucius died, would he categorize it as a philosophy, a religion or both? How would he feel about being infamous? ]]> 2018-11-19 19:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306079038 Professionals Response sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306080707 Question 1]]> 2018-11-19 19:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306080707 Confucius Personality sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306081910 Confucius considered himself a transmitter who consciously tried to reanimate the old in order to attain the new. Advocated a ritualized life. He desired to understand why certain life forms and institutions, such as reverence for ancestors, human-centred religious practices, and mourning ceremonies, had survived for centuries.]]> 2018-11-19 19:17:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306081910 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306083011 The fact that traditional ways had lost vitality did not, for him, diminish their potential for regeneration in the future. In fact, Confucius’s sense of history was so strong that he saw himself as a conservationist responsible for the continuity of the cultural values and the social norms (Brittannica)]]> 2018-11-19 19:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306083011 Answer 2 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306084531 "The community that Confucius created was a scholarly fellowship of like-minded men of different ages and different backgrounds from different states" (Brittanica)

    Men being the key word because as with the times, men were the educated not women]]>     2018-11-19 19:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306084531     Question 2 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306085255 Society at that point did not hold women in high regard, did Confucius agree with these views?]]> 2018-11-19 19:23:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306085255 Q2 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306085983  A major emphasis of Asian women scholars has been the examination of Confucian ideology on their history and current status. Scholar Xiao Ma has said: "Women always have been fighting for a way out of the Confucian shadows."]]> 2018-11-19 19:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306085983 Women Treatment sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306086702  According to the Confucian structure of society, women at every level were to occupy a position lower than men. Most Confucians accepted the subservience of women to men as natural and proper. At the same time they accorded women's honor and power as mother and mother-in-law within their family.]]> 2018-11-19 19:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306086702 Answer 3 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306090366 Confucianism stresses a son’s respect for his father (Confucian language is arrantly sexist), but the doctrine of the Rectification of Names says that fathers have responsibilities too. In “Confucian Theory of Norms and Human Rights,” Wejen Chang writes, “Only when a father behaves as a correct father can a son be expected to behave as a correct son.”]]> 2018-11-19 19:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306090366 Q3 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306090702 Confucius strongly believed in filial piety, what would his views on abusive fathers be?]]> 2018-11-19 19:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306090702 A3 POV sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306091534  Kwong-Liem Karl Kwan, professor of counseling at San Francisco State University, writes, “Filial piety includes certain moral principles that are conducive to child abuse.”

     Global Times : filial piety supports “the idea that children are parents’ property.”
    ]]>     2018-11-19 19:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306091534     POV Professionals sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306092006 Jill E. Korbin’s Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives: according to the tenet of filial piety, children were “the sole property of their parents” and “could be dealt with in whatever manner their parents chose,” including “severe beatings, infanticide, child slavery, the selling of young girls as prostitutes, child betrothal, and foot-binding.”

    ]]>     2018-11-19 19:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306092006     A4 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306092603 Stereotypes of Chinese philosophy as consisting almost entirely of Confucianism and claims that Confucians were not interested in science add to this perception.]]> 2018-11-19 19:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306092603 Q4 sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306092873 Would confucius be in favor of the science of today or would he continue to urge for past philosophy /traditions/ government? ]]> 2018-11-19 19:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306092873 A sakshi1194 https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306093475 Neo-confucionism disagrees with modern day government but confucius in himself had no opinion- that is said because there was no "science "while he lived.]]> 2018-11-19 19:42:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sakshi1194/b8zpsi8ehxfl/wish/306093475