Image via WikipediaStudy Questions for Smith, pages 163-183Use these questions to help you move more quickly through the reading but still to grasp and understand the most important ideas. Always answer in your own words, using only a few words from the text itself.
1. Who were the “Realists?” Explain how they sought to maintain social order in China.
2. How did the realists have “a low estimate of human nature?”
3. Who was Mo Tzu, and how did he propose to solve China’s social problems? What did he think was “missing?”
4. How did Confucius see that both the Realists and the Mohists were mistaken?
5. Why did Confucius value tradition so heavily?
6. Skip from the end of the first full paragraph on p. 170 to the top of page 172. Begin reading again at the heading.
7. Give a one sentence summary in your own words of the five key concept of Confucianism that Smith gives on pages 172-180. (Hint- if you have trouble squeezing it into one sentence, use a semi-colon... correctly!)
Jen-
Chun tzu-
Li-
Te-
Wen-
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