Confucius Intro

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Type I: As you come into class, please answer this question. How do teachers keep order in a classroom? What is effective and what isn’t an effective method of classroom management in your expert opinion.

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Type I: As you come into class, please answer this question.

How do teachers keep order in a classroom? What is effective and what isn’t an effective method of classroom management in your expert opinion.

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China before Confucius

Period of Warring StatesLots of death and tortureThe ‘State’ has been lost.

Essential Question: How dowe get back to order?

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Confucius

Born in 551 B.C.died in 479 B.C.

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Confucianism

Concerned primarily with restoring social stability and order What is the basis of a stable, unified, and

enduring social order?a system of social and ethical

philosophy “only when character is cultivated are our

families regulated; only when families are regulated are states well governed.”

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Confucianism

li rituals, norms, institutions, or mores the outer, conforming aspect of

Confucianismren

humaneness, love, kindness, benevolence, or virtue

the inner, reforming aspect of Confucianism

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Li

Rites, ceremonies, proper behavior, and good manner

universal harmonyperformed in good faith, with

everyone keeping to his or her proper role

no need for physical sanctions, laws, or punishment

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Ren

Relationship between "two persons”extension of filial piety to all human

beingseach role in the hierarchy of social

relations had clearly defined duties reciprocity or mutual responsibility

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Five relationships

father-childruler-subjecthusband-wifeelder brother-younger brotherfriend-friend

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In today’s China