Confucianism:
Question 1:
-Confucianism is the act of being Humane, and a person of humanness would be one who lives their life with respect, morality, earnestness, kindness, and trustworthiness. Lives according to the way, and helps others.
Question 2:
-Like in Buddhism where compassion for others is above all else the most important value, commission and concern for others is an important value of Confucianism. And these values are kind of like lessons learned in the Bible and Torah.
Question 3:
-It would work if a family is based on purely on humaneness but it would not be a healthy family relationship, because you should love your kid because you love them not because you have to.
-It would make more sense for the governments to be based on humanity because humanity is about what is bested for the people in the community.
Question 4:
-Confucius's concept of what was right was what was morally right, where as Han Fei Tzu's concept of humanity and humaneness was about what is legally right.
Confucianism and Taoism:
Confucianism and Taoism, both have the same elements of philosophy and religion, but arise to represent different methods of thinking and demand with separeate keys of behavior. One of the biggest areas where Confucianism and Taoism differ is that Confucianism focuses on the social and society. While Taoism places much more focus on a relationship of a individual, and harmony. Another area where Taoism and Confucianism differ is how taught. Both are philosophies around wisdom of a single master or teacher, but presented in two different ways. Confucius is presented more like a dialog between the master and the individuals. Most of the readings we did in class on Confucianism are texts from a master with a student. Taoism is more in direct writing type styles in monologues with is like a poem form. A thing that both of them have in common is that the philospohies are based on self improvement. They both have strong contrasts with each other, but with similar goals, they have been able to co exist well for many years.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Caste System in India
The caste system which is prevalent in Indian culture refers to a social stratificition and placed on some groups within the society. The system has been traditionally associated with Hindu's but many other religions in Indian society. Indians are born into a caste system, they are put in what ever their parents were in. Its dissemination, its not just right for some one to be born into something. Its like being born a prince, its not fair, unless its you. For example, I really like the life I was born into, and the social class that I am in from my family. But if I didn't like the social class I lived in, I wouldn't like the system. I believe that the system in America is way better than the system in Hindu religion in India. In America, it is not set into stones that you will stay in your caste, you can move up through your own abilities, by having good education, and making money.
Its pretty much like a social status is basically how much power you have, if you have a high social status, then you are powerful. These status remains me of Mean Girls the movie, the popular kids are on the top and the losers are on the bottom, it just feels good to be at the top.
All societies or religions have developed over time a social stratificition within their belief, where individuals and groups are put into a certain status within the social hierarchy. In India, they use the caste system, where you are born into a certain caste and you stay there for your whole life. You can only marry some one in your caste level. The caste system used to be popular but not any more, because of religion and the government.
Its pretty much like a social status is basically how much power you have, if you have a high social status, then you are powerful. These status remains me of Mean Girls the movie, the popular kids are on the top and the losers are on the bottom, it just feels good to be at the top.
All societies or religions have developed over time a social stratificition within their belief, where individuals and groups are put into a certain status within the social hierarchy. In India, they use the caste system, where you are born into a certain caste and you stay there for your whole life. You can only marry some one in your caste level. The caste system used to be popular but not any more, because of religion and the government.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
P.A.P.E.R on Constantine
Purpose: The author defines Constantine's drastic change from being polytheist to monotheist. The author is a bishop, that baptised Constantine when he was dying back in May of 337. The bishop died only four years after Constantine. The author is describing Constantine searching for another hand in war, and this hand in G-d. Eusebius who is the bishop wrote this to describe Constantine's strong belief in Christianity.
Argument: Eusebius is arguing that G-d is real, and is showing his miracles, proving that their is only one Supreme G-d. Our group thinks that this text is intended for people who are on the boarder of believing in Christianity or not. By showing that a supreme deity exists, and can do anything to help an individual or community, for whose may consider believing in Christianity. The author may seem sightly un-realiable because being a bishop for Christianity, one would do whatever is needed to convert others to their beliefs in religion. However, because this text is from a biography, you wouldn't lie in some one's life story.
Presuppositions: When reading this text, one may think that Constantine wasn't a true believer of Christianity because he didn't convert until he was on his deathbed. The bishop is describing what Constantine saw in a power of one G-d. Today, people would question Eusebius, with science in our daily lives, believing a supreme deity doesn't exist, nor can perform miracles.
Epistemology: In our text book reading on Constantine describes how Constantine saw a sign from God in a battle, and made his soldiers place crosses on their shields. Constantine never even thought about the existence of one supreme diety, until G-d spoke to him in one of his battles. The textbook also talks about G-d speaking directly to Constantine, why he needs help from G-d in the war. And the reading shows that him performing miracles and showing he is a G-d, both readings prove that G-d exists and is helping others.
Relate: Primary source of some what praises Constantine and his strong belief in Christianity. Text book reading some what questions whether or not Constantine was a true believer of Christianity or just an emperor that was just seeking out and helping the religion spread.
Argument: Eusebius is arguing that G-d is real, and is showing his miracles, proving that their is only one Supreme G-d. Our group thinks that this text is intended for people who are on the boarder of believing in Christianity or not. By showing that a supreme deity exists, and can do anything to help an individual or community, for whose may consider believing in Christianity. The author may seem sightly un-realiable because being a bishop for Christianity, one would do whatever is needed to convert others to their beliefs in religion. However, because this text is from a biography, you wouldn't lie in some one's life story.
Presuppositions: When reading this text, one may think that Constantine wasn't a true believer of Christianity because he didn't convert until he was on his deathbed. The bishop is describing what Constantine saw in a power of one G-d. Today, people would question Eusebius, with science in our daily lives, believing a supreme deity doesn't exist, nor can perform miracles.
Epistemology: In our text book reading on Constantine describes how Constantine saw a sign from God in a battle, and made his soldiers place crosses on their shields. Constantine never even thought about the existence of one supreme diety, until G-d spoke to him in one of his battles. The textbook also talks about G-d speaking directly to Constantine, why he needs help from G-d in the war. And the reading shows that him performing miracles and showing he is a G-d, both readings prove that G-d exists and is helping others.
Relate: Primary source of some what praises Constantine and his strong belief in Christianity. Text book reading some what questions whether or not Constantine was a true believer of Christianity or just an emperor that was just seeking out and helping the religion spread.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
How does Religion Expand?
I believe that religions expand why the the mouth, and the word on the street. It depends on how largely the society it is, the larger it is the faster the word gets out. Its like gossip, as things fall apart, people tend to turn more towards religions, which is what they know.
Like in Student Government and we are voting on something, when the majority of the people rise there hands for it, then you do to. As the word gets out about new religions and people liking it, people want to be apart of the community. Also like the Nazis they had different speakers with different accents, from the south, east, west and north of Germany, people felt like every one was in it. And it was important to fit into the group of the community. As the religions grow and the word gets out, and the more people are in the religion the more will convert.
How people do or don't know which religion they want to believe in?
If you want to believe in religion and need to find the well rounded one, that fits you best. To admit, there is no religion that an perfectly convey what you want. I am Jewish and believe in the religion, but I do not agree on everything, I may agree on something else from another religion. Like why cant Jews celebrate Christmas? All religions belong to someone on the earth, not every body believes in religion though. Its nice to have someone looking at you and that knowing your not all alone.
Like in Student Government and we are voting on something, when the majority of the people rise there hands for it, then you do to. As the word gets out about new religions and people liking it, people want to be apart of the community. Also like the Nazis they had different speakers with different accents, from the south, east, west and north of Germany, people felt like every one was in it. And it was important to fit into the group of the community. As the religions grow and the word gets out, and the more people are in the religion the more will convert.
How people do or don't know which religion they want to believe in?
If you want to believe in religion and need to find the well rounded one, that fits you best. To admit, there is no religion that an perfectly convey what you want. I am Jewish and believe in the religion, but I do not agree on everything, I may agree on something else from another religion. Like why cant Jews celebrate Christmas? All religions belong to someone on the earth, not every body believes in religion though. Its nice to have someone looking at you and that knowing your not all alone.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Abraham and Podcast
Write a blog post on what you believe to be the significance of Abraham in the history of the world (cite at least 2-3 specific parts of the podcast in your answer).
Three of the worlds most prominent religions can from the honor of Abraham, as their creator and is the model for that faith. Abraham is a major prophet for Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. For Judaism, Abraham's kids name was Issac and the Jacob. In Christian is part of the bible and he was an holy ancestor. And in the Islams religion Abraham is interpreted by a son and which is in Mecca an also the holiest place for Muslims around the world. He lived up to age 175, (which seems un true.) I remember this from Hebrew school that Abraham as going to offer this son Issac as a human sacrifice but an angel stops him at the last minute. Since there is no historical evidence of his life, other than things that were written down after he died. Could the true stories be altered from long periods of time, like the game telephone? All are these things true? Do we know that these things really happened? If they are not true, does that mean these three religions are based on lies of what was told?
In the podcast it talked about how Abraham as made all these religions agree one and another. I think that this is because it is probably one of the only thing that all three monotheism religions have in similar. People that have things that are similar which is like agreeing to one thing. The things that they agree one are that what some people arggue about. Arguments that happened within religion becomes huge because religion is something that is so powerful that every one must feel apart of it. Mostly the really religious people like my Hebrew teacher Eddie, every time we didn't agree she would get angry and get really worked up, now i know that's because she felt like the religion was apart of who she was. And with out that she would feel incomplete.
Three of the worlds most prominent religions can from the honor of Abraham, as their creator and is the model for that faith. Abraham is a major prophet for Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. For Judaism, Abraham's kids name was Issac and the Jacob. In Christian is part of the bible and he was an holy ancestor. And in the Islams religion Abraham is interpreted by a son and which is in Mecca an also the holiest place for Muslims around the world. He lived up to age 175, (which seems un true.) I remember this from Hebrew school that Abraham as going to offer this son Issac as a human sacrifice but an angel stops him at the last minute. Since there is no historical evidence of his life, other than things that were written down after he died. Could the true stories be altered from long periods of time, like the game telephone? All are these things true? Do we know that these things really happened? If they are not true, does that mean these three religions are based on lies of what was told?
In the podcast it talked about how Abraham as made all these religions agree one and another. I think that this is because it is probably one of the only thing that all three monotheism religions have in similar. People that have things that are similar which is like agreeing to one thing. The things that they agree one are that what some people arggue about. Arguments that happened within religion becomes huge because religion is something that is so powerful that every one must feel apart of it. Mostly the really religious people like my Hebrew teacher Eddie, every time we didn't agree she would get angry and get really worked up, now i know that's because she felt like the religion was apart of who she was. And with out that she would feel incomplete.
In the podcast it also talked about how Abraham is one of the most well talked persons within the three religions. The three religions tell it differently which causes some heat. It is creating a cultural diffusion, because all three have different stories on Abraham. In the podcast it talked about the killing for God which was one of the reasons toward 9-11, it was those people showing that was killing for God. Personally, I think its weird to kill some one for God. Those people in 9-11 didn't deserve it and nether did the families who lost friends and family. Since 9-11 the world and religions have been based and viewed differently. Since 9-11 I don't really care for Muslims and will not go to a Muslim country, pretty much I am stereotyping the whole religion even though it was only a few people with those silly religious view points.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Cultural Diffusion
What is Cultural Diffusion?
Cultural diffusion is pretty much like gossip, that starts some where and ends up another, like gossip it spreads quickly and when more people know the faster it spreads. Cultures over time com die loated and changes other cultures over time. Ever heard of the game telephone. I used to play it when I was little, its when one person starts with a saying they pass it on and then the person on the end says what they "think" the word was. Most of the time it changes a bit and sometimes it is not even close at all. Over time humans have been finding writings from many years ago like from Egypt, but there only so much that we can know. Like the pymaids, huamns found, they can only understand what they have found and have to relay on science on the rest. Cultural diffusion is much like the game of telephone, in that information tends to get altered over time and the further it gets from its original beginning.
Cultural diffusion is pretty much like gossip, that starts some where and ends up another, like gossip it spreads quickly and when more people know the faster it spreads. Cultures over time com die loated and changes other cultures over time. Ever heard of the game telephone. I used to play it when I was little, its when one person starts with a saying they pass it on and then the person on the end says what they "think" the word was. Most of the time it changes a bit and sometimes it is not even close at all. Over time humans have been finding writings from many years ago like from Egypt, but there only so much that we can know. Like the pymaids, huamns found, they can only understand what they have found and have to relay on science on the rest. Cultural diffusion is much like the game of telephone, in that information tends to get altered over time and the further it gets from its original beginning.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Monotheism and Polytheism
Why did the world go from a civilization that was 90% polytheistic to a civilization that was 90% monotheistic?
I believe that this dramatic effect on society happened because monotheism can be seen as a step forward. I think that because it is more "advanced" because it is true. Could monotheism really be a step backwards? Its more of a sense of a community, easier to comprehend, Monotheism is more forceful and more powerful towards their believers of the religions. Maybe as time went by, Monotheistic became more prominent through out the years of an ever changing society. Now a days Islamic, Judaism, and Christianity are the worlds most dominant religions and they are all Monotheistic. Polytheism civilizations probably had no trouble coming up with things that would make there religion stick and hold.
Monotheism, which is one god provides the organization to the believers of that faith. In our groups decisions it was talked about that Monotheism was more strict about religious stuff. What happened to that? Why isn't it the same now, its 2012 and now people a days don't go to temple or church as much as it was taught into the religion many years ago.
Why is Monotheism better than Polytheism?
In the modern world Monotheism is a more dominate religion than Polytheism. Perhaps Monotheism itself wasn't the advance part, but it was the things that were brought up along it. Like when I was taughted in Hebrew School that the leading that Monotheism was that Moses thought and saw like poor and rich were equal. Monotheism can be a step forward from polytheism because it gives an interllecttual to a God to the believers of the faith. Monotheism is better than Polytheism because Polytheism its independent and more difficult to put into our daily lives. Even both of the two different types of religion, the believers are able to pray when ever is needed.
I believe that this dramatic effect on society happened because monotheism can be seen as a step forward. I think that because it is more "advanced" because it is true. Could monotheism really be a step backwards? Its more of a sense of a community, easier to comprehend, Monotheism is more forceful and more powerful towards their believers of the religions. Maybe as time went by, Monotheistic became more prominent through out the years of an ever changing society. Now a days Islamic, Judaism, and Christianity are the worlds most dominant religions and they are all Monotheistic. Polytheism civilizations probably had no trouble coming up with things that would make there religion stick and hold.
Monotheism, which is one god provides the organization to the believers of that faith. In our groups decisions it was talked about that Monotheism was more strict about religious stuff. What happened to that? Why isn't it the same now, its 2012 and now people a days don't go to temple or church as much as it was taught into the religion many years ago.
Why is Monotheism better than Polytheism?
In the modern world Monotheism is a more dominate religion than Polytheism. Perhaps Monotheism itself wasn't the advance part, but it was the things that were brought up along it. Like when I was taughted in Hebrew School that the leading that Monotheism was that Moses thought and saw like poor and rich were equal. Monotheism can be a step forward from polytheism because it gives an interllecttual to a God to the believers of the faith. Monotheism is better than Polytheism because Polytheism its independent and more difficult to put into our daily lives. Even both of the two different types of religion, the believers are able to pray when ever is needed.
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