GOLDEN RULE:

“Do not do unto others what you would not want others to do unto you”

TASK: WRITE A REFLECTION ABOUT THE GOLDEN RULE.

1. MINIMUM OF 2 PARAGRAPHS WITH 4-5 SENTENCES.

2. ARE-IS-WAS- IN-OR-AND-IT-SO: ARE NOT INCLUDED IN COUNTING THE WORDS
3. USE ENGLISH AS MEDIUM OF LANGUAGE.
4. 1 WHOLE SHEET OF PAPER
5. SUBMISSION: UNTIL 9:30AM ONLY. BEYOND THIS TIME, SCORE IS DEDUCTED
BY 10 POINTS.

NOTE: KUNG MAG RESEARCH MAN GANI, TRY TO PARAPHRASE. TRY YOUR BEST
TO STATE YOUR OWN REFLECTION. RELFECTION PASABOT GIKAN SA IMONG
HEART AND MIND
CONFUCIANISM
Confucianism believes
in ancestor worship
and human-centered
virtues for living a
peaceful life.
 •The golden rule of
Confucianism is:
•“Do not do unto others
what you would not want
others to do unto you”.
• What are the 5 elements of Confucianism?
The five most important virtues are:
• Benevolence
• Righteousness
• Propriety
• Wisdom
• Trustworthiness
• The first four virtues were grouped together in the
Mengzi.
• The fifth virtue, xin, was added by Dong
Zhongshu.
What are the 4 main principles of Confucianism?
• The concepts of:
•  respect for autonomy,
• beneficence,
• non-maleficence,
• and justice 

• The moral values of these four prima facie principles

have been expressly identified in Confucius' ethics.
What are the 3 main beliefs of Confucianism?
Key Ideas of Confucianism

To the virtues of the ruler correspond values that each

individual is supposed to cultivate:

1) Benevolence toward others;

2) A general sense of doing what is right; and
3) Loyalty and diligence in serving one's superiors.
What are the 6 principles of Confucianism?
• Confucius taught six arts: 
• (1) ritual,
• (2) music,
• (3) archery,
• (4) charioteering,
• (5) calligraphy and
• (6) mathematics.
• These subjects included both knowledge from classic texts and
knowledge achieved by doing and practicing.
• In teaching, he used examples from reality by questioning and
conversing with students.
 What does Confucianism focus on?
The worldly concern of Confucianism rests upon the
belief that human beings are fundamentally good,
and teachable, improvable, and perfectible through
personal and communal endeavor, especially self-
cultivation and self-creation. Confucian thought
focuses on the cultivation of virtue in a morally
organised world.
•Confucianism is often characterized as a
system of social and ethical philosophy
rather than a religion. In fact,
Confucianism built on an ancient religious
foundation to establish the social values,
institutions, and transcendent ideals of
traditional Chinese society. 
• It was what sociologist Robert Bellah called a "civil religion," the
sense of religious identity and common moral understanding at
the foundation of a society's central institutions.
• It is also what a Chinese sociologist called a "diffused religion";
its institutions were not a separate church, but those of society,
family, school, and state; its priests were not separate liturgical
specialists, but parents, teachers, and officials. 
•Confucianism was part of the
Chinese social fabric and way of
life; to Confucians, everyday life
was the arena of religion.
•The founder of Confucianism, Master
Kong (Confucius, 551-479 B.C.E.) did
not intend to found a new religion, but to
interpret and revive the unnamed religion
of the Zhou dynasty, under which many
people thought the ancient system of
religious rule was bankrupt.
• The inner pole of Confucianism was reformist, idealistic, and spiritual.
• It generated a high ideal for family interaction: members were to treat
each other with love, respect, and consideration for the needs of all.
• It prescribed a lofty ideal for the state: the ruler was to be a father to his
people and look after their basic needs.
• It required officials to criticize their rulers and refuse to serve the
corrupt.
• This inner and idealist wing spawned a Confucian reformation known in
the West as Neo-Confucianism.
• The movement produced reformers, philanthropists, dedicated teachers
and officials, and social philosophers from the eleventh through the
nineteenth centuries.
•The idealist wing of
Confucianism had a religious
character. 
•The outer and inner aspects of
Confucianism—its conforming and
reforming sides—were in tension
throughout Chinese history. Moreover, the
tensions between social and political
realities and the high-minded moral ideals
of the Confucians were an ongoing source
of concern for the leaders of this tradition. 
•Moreover, the tensions between social
and political realities and the high-
minded moral ideals of the Confucians
were an ongoing source of concern for
the leaders of this tradition. 
• The dangers of moral sterility and hypocrisy were
always present.
• Confucianism, they knew well, served both as a
conservative state orthodoxy and a stimulus for
reform.
• Great Confucians, like religious leaders
everywhere, sought periodically to revive and
renew the moral, intellectual, and spiritual vigor of
the tradition. 
•Until the 1890s, serious-minded
Chinese saw Confucianism, despite its
failures to realize its ideal society, as
the source of hope for China and the
core of what it meant to be Chinese.
• Although since the revolution, the public ideology
of the People's Republic has abandoned
Confucian teachings, one can say that there is a
continuity of form: like Confucianism before it,
Maoism teaches a commitment to transforming
the world by applying the lessons of autopian
ideology to the actions and institutions of
everyday life. 
•This is not to claim that Mao was a
"closet Confucian," but to emphasize that
the Confucian way was virtually
synonymous with the Chinese way.
FOR REFERENCE

https://asiasociety.org/
education/confucianism