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Learning Activity: 4 SCORE: _________

NAME: ___________________________________________________

DATE: ____________________________ TIME: _________________

COURSE AND YEAR: ________________________________________

1. Discuss the meaning of the following:


1.1 Vedas
1.2 Maya
1.3 Atman
1.4 Brahman
1.5 Moksha
2. What is the value of Samsara in Hindu morality?
3. What has Atman to do with the Brahman in relation to morality?
4. Do you agree with the contention that Buddhism is an ethics of liberation? Why?
5. What are the three jewels in Buddhism?
6. Do you agree with Buddha when he argued that life is permeated by suffering?
Why?
7. Do you think Buddha is right when he argued that it is craving that causes
suffering? Why?
8. Banking on your own experience, what can you say about suffering?
9. Discuss Buddha’s four Noble Truths.
10. Do you agree with Buddha when he posited his claim that suffering can be
eliminated from man? Why?
11. How do you compare Indian Ethics with Chinese Ethics?
12. How do you describe, generally, Chinese Philosophy?
13. How is Confucian ethics related with human – heartedness?
14. What have the innate laws of nature to do with morality?
15. Discuss the meaning of the following in relation to morality:
15.1 Ren
15.2 Li
15.3 Yi
15.4 Shu

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15.5 Xiao
16. Discuss and explain the original meaning of Tao
17. Explain the meaning of Tao as the Way of the Ultimate Reality.
18. What has Tao do with the universe?
19. Does Tao have something to do with human existence? Why?
20. Explain the meaning of Yin and Yang.
21. Do you think that the characteristics of Yin and Yang are contrary or
contradictory? Why?
22. What is the place of Tao in the correlation of Yin and Yang?
23. Could Tao stand independently of Yin and Yang? Why?
24. What have Tao, Yin and Yang to do with the way toasts understand and
interpret morality?
25. What is Zen – Buddhism?
26. Is Zen-Buddhism a combination of Taoism and Buddhism? Why?
27. Why is reason repugnant to Zen-Buddhists?
28. Explain the meaning of the following:
28.1 Koans
28.2 Zou-Chan
28.3 Satori
29. As a student in moral, what do you think Zen-Buddhism has taught you?
30. Explain the meaning of the following:
30.1 Salam
30.2 Allah
30.3 Koran
30.4 Mohammed
30.5 Tawaf
30.6 Ka’ba
30.7 Black Stone
30.8 Abraham
31. Present the minor moral injunction in Islam.
32. Because of their obligation to pray, do you think the Muslim are more
religious than the Christian? What do you understand by the term religious?

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33. What do you think the obligation “to have a pilgrimage to Mecca” have to do
with moral lives of the Muslims?
34. As a Christian, what has Islamic ethics taught you?

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