Answers should be 7 pages. The exam is due on-line via TurnItIn Friday November 8 by noon. Choose only one of the following questions. All questions draw on lecture materials, and one on Yao. Do not use outside sources. 1 explain seven core Confucian conc

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1 explain seven core Confucian concepts 

2 explain the paradox of proper order 

3 explain the Confucian conception of international politics. 

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Introduction

Confucian was a way of life that was developed by the great scholar called Confucius,
who was brought up in a family where his father passed on when he was three years old. The
humble upbringing of Confucius was what probably led him to learn and to research. He set his
heart and devoted his time mostly to learning and understanding the ancient ways and coming up
with newer more improved ways of living and leading a better life. He had about three thousand
students who have continued to study and even pass on the classics that they have always dealt
with. “If we were to characterize in one word the Chinese way of life for the last two thousand
years, the word could be ‘Confucian.’ No other individual in Chinese history has so profoundly
influenced the life and thought of his people, as a transmitter, teacher, and creative interpreter of
the ancient culture and literature and as a moulder of the Chinese mind and character.”
Confucius believed that guidelines and principles were the roots of all interactions and
social relations and that it was the foundation of all peace and stability, prosperity of a state,
family and also an individual. Confucian states that society can co-exist in peace and harmony
under guidance and wisdom and that a person’s goodness can be learned and taught. He came up
with a few concepts which helped to develop the classics. These classics have been passed from
generation to generation through the masters and the scholars for more than two thousand years
and have been continuously developed to both strengthen it and also suit the environment of the
time.
Virtue and Morality
Maspero stated in his book: “The central problem of the Doctrine of Literati in all ages
was one of ethics; and that is what has so often led to the judgment that Confucianism was above

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all a morality, which is far from accurate . . . It is indeed a matter of very particular ethics, quite
different from what we generally understand by this word, and that is why it is so often omitted
from Western accounts of Confucianism. In reality, the problem is the effect which the good or
bad acts of man (and especially the governmental acts of the sovereign, representing humanity)
have upon the ord...


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