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    A Contrast of Confucianism and Christianity Thesis: Chinese Confucianism and Roman Christianity are similar in both set key principles adopted by governments and both were created by leaders who taught by lesson yet different in that Confucianism was promoted by the government whereas political leaders in Rome strongly opposed Christianity. Topic Sentence: Confucianism and Christianity are similar in that both set lasting principles that influenced their governments, Confucianism with central principles

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    according to Confucianism, and Confucian relationships. First of all, the movie Mulan is historically accurate in its portrayal of Daoist thoughts. One of the main Daoist thoughts is that nature’s function is better than constructs or actions taken by humans. This is well represented when Mulan faces an army of Huns at the alps. Instead of having taking a more human-focused route by firing the cannon directly at the approaching army, she acts like a true Daoist and shoots

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    Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are three of the world’s greatest belief systems, each with their similarities and their differences. In their respective nations, they each had significant political, religious, and social impacts on society. Politically, the ideals of Hinduism and Confucianism closely align. In Hinduism they believed in a caste system where there existed 5 castes, the Brahman, priests; Kshatriyas, warriors; Vaishya, farmers and merchants; Shundras, peasants; and the Dalits (untouchables)

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    Prompt: 4. Explain five lasting legacies of Confucianism Confucianism developed from the period of Hundred Schools of thought. It was widely acknowledged throughout most of the great empires in ancient China and was even adopted as the official school in Han Dynasty. Even though social and political structures have changed dramatically since then, Confucianism still has great influence over East Asia. This paper focus on lasting legacies of Confucianism in five aspects, which are family model, proper

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    many matters of China. Confucianism became the paramount school of thinking and later significant philosophies such as Daoism and Legalism gained immense recognition as well. Each party had their own proposals for creating an idealistic political society where the many problems they faced in their everyday lives could be eliminated. All three approaches were very distinct but at the same time, they contained similarities as well. In my reasoning, I find that Confucianism and Daoism

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    According to The Analects, Confucianism brings harmony by not doing things to others that you wouldn’t want done to yourself. Confucianists follow Ren and Li. Ren (humility) is when one is kind, benevolent, and has humaneness towards others. Li is the rituals, rites, etiquette and propriety which lead to peace and harmony. Ren brings harmony by someone giving love and being equal. I believe that ren really does bring harmony into a society because when someone has a lot of pride, it ruins a lot for

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    Socio-philosophical structures have strong effect on traditions: Case of influence of Confucianism on Korean traditions As history goes by the world structure, politics, and economy changes from decade to decade, however traditions, customs and culture of different countries remain almost untouched. Culture therefore is a highly important aspect to the society and individuals (Oatey, 2012). Culture of any society includes traditions, customs, rituals and events flourished by certain society. As

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    Confucianism; Philosophy and Religion Confucianism, also known as Ruism, is described as a tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a way of life. It was founded by Kung Futzhu or “Great Master Kung” Zhou Dynasty then was made the political ideology of the government during the Han Dynasty. Confucianism is viewed with particular emphasis on the importance of the family and social harmony, rather than on worldly source of spiritual

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    the other hand, Confucianism attempted to show the positive human natures throw providing hierarchy, education system because it was believed that human was good but mislead by evil. Confucianism cared about both justice and traditions. For example, in Confucianism, justice included patriarchy in which men were superior to women. In other words, Confucianism was the superior system in China and the scholars included some of legalism ideas in their system but counted Confucianism as the official system

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    fundamental concepts that were exhibited, Taoism and Confucianism, presented concurrently in dynastic China. This lured an infinite amount of followers during the period of over 2,000 years (UShistory.org, 2018). The beliefs that these two mythical individuals composed remain in formidable fashion even today. As with any other religion, there exist similarities and differences between Taoism and Confucianism that will be discussed. Taoism and Confucianism are quite similar with respect to the Chinese culture

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