Chооse 1 оf the following questions. Answer with а well-developed pаrаgraph of approximately 10–20 sentences, making specific references to the text. Be sure to write the question number next to your answer. 1. Describe Confucius' values and vision. How the the two sayings below reflect that vision? 7.1Confucius said: “I am not an inventor, but a transmitter.I trust and love the wisdom of the ancients.In that, I may be compared to old Peng.” 12.11Chi K’ang-tzu asked Confucius about good government: “Master, how can I make the people respectful, loyal, and eager to serve?” Confucius said: “Let everyone perform their proper role.Let the ruler act as a ruler,the minister as a minister,the father as a father,and the son as a son.” 2. Identify the author and the title of the poem below. How does the poem reflect the author's values and ideal life? Then contrast this ideal with the Confucian ideal of the junzi (gentleman). Which approach do you find more compelling and why? Support your argument with references to the texts. I built my hut beside a traveled road,yet hear no sound of passing carts and wheels.You wonder how this can be—the heart withdrawn creates its solitude.I pluck chrysanthemums by the eastern hedgeand calmly gaze toward distant southern hills.At dusk the mountain air grows clear and pure;returning birds fill up the evening sky.In such small things there lies a quiet truththat words can never fully bring to light. 3. Identify the title of the reading quoted below: Act without clinging to results,and you will break the bondage of karma.In this path, no effort is lost,no failure wasted;even a little of this practicesaves one from great fear. 4. Identify the title of the reading quoted below. What was his failure? How does the character ultimately interpret this failure, and what lesson is learned from it? “You have shown courage beyond measure.Let this green sash be a signto unite us all.” And so the Round Table knightsadopted the green beltas a token of honor,a reminder that even the best menmay falterand rise again.
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