Lecture on Confucianism, Daoism, and the Humanities

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T/F According to the Analects, learning requires knowledge of the past in order to apply it to the present.

True

T/F According to John Dewey in "The Democratic Conception in Education," Plato's model of a just society and education leads to a problem of circular reasoning.

true

T/F According to the Great Learning #6, only emperors and scholars can cultivate the self.

false

T/F Walter Kaufmann suggests that the teaching of the Humanities should be an act of piety

true

Luminous Virtue

Ming de is best translated as _______ in the Great Learning.

T/F In Analects 17.9, Kongzi says that the Odes may only be used to serve your parents, and no one else.

false

T/F In Daoism, the Dao is the source (the mother) of all things.

true

T/F According to the Walter Kaufmann, one problem facing the Humanities is that many Humanities professors would rather be considered social scientists rather than humanists.

true

T/F According to Vico's "On Education for the Common Good," what is truly honorable can be separated from what is useful.

false

The Zhuangzi begins with a story about:

A fish that turns into a bird

T/F Martha Nussbaum defends the economic growth model of development in "Education for Profit Education for Democracy."

false

T/F In the World Humanities Report: Strategies for Persistence, Sara Guyer claims that the Humanities should only be accessible and available to students at the university-level and not in K-12 education.

false

T/F According to Analects 17.9 the Odes do not refer to the names of birds and animals.

false

T/F In Confucianism, the term "Ren" can be translated as humaneness.

true

T/F According to Vico's "On Education for the Common Good," the goal of liberal studies are useless when aimed at achieving honor.

true

Li

According to Analects 1.2, _______ is the root of Ren.

According to Vico's "On Education for the Common Good," what does he claim to be the "handmaids of wisdom"?

Humanities and Sciences

wen

Culture is the translation for which term as used in the Analects?

T/F Confucius suggests that the superior person is capable of helping others to cultivate virtue without possessing virtue in themselves.

false

anthropocentrism

Which of the following does not describe Zhuangzi’s philosophy?

T/F Ban Zhao suggests that the relationship between husband and wife is modeled on the relationship between yin and yang.

true