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Part one:
Each question should be half of a page of a college writing blue book. In your response
you must identify the historical or religious context to which each passage pertains (e.g. speaker, subject, occasion, purpose, general time period). More importantly, you need to explain its relevance to its respective tradition. Evidence of independent and compelling insight on the readings is strongly recommended. Each response should be at least a full paragraph in length.
1) “The Duke of She observed to Confucius: ‘Among us there was an upright man called Kung who was so upright that when his father appropriated a sheep, he bore witness against him.’ Confucius said: ‘The upright men among us are not like that. A father will screen his son and a son his father—yet uprightness is to be found in that.’” (Analects)
2) “‘Then is it permissible for a subject to assassinate his lord?’ Mencius said, ‘Someone who does violence to the good we call a villain; someone who does violence to the right we call a criminal. A person who is both a villain and a criminal we call a scoundrel. I have heard that the scoundrel Zhou was killed, but not heard that a lord was killed.’” (The Mencius)
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/services/dropoff/china_civ_temp/week03/pdfs/select7.pdf
3) “As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter; As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils, my lips will not speak falsehood and my tongue will not utter deceit. Far be it from me to say that you are right; Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me” (“Book of Job”) https://ebible.org/kjv/Job.htm
4) “Ananda, a nun, even one who has been ordained for a hundred years, must respectfully salute a monk, even one who has been ordained but a day. This, Ananda, is the first cardinal rule for nuns, which they should respect, esteem, honor, and venerate as long as they live and steadfastly maintain as though it were the shore of the great ocean.” (“The Acceptance of Women into the Order”)
5) “So Gilgamesh, fill thy body, make merry by day and night, keep each day a feast of rejoicing! Day and night, leap and have thy delight! Put on clean raiments, Wash thy head and bathe thee in water. Look cheerily at the child who holdeth thy hand, And may thy wife have joy in thy arms!” (“The Epic of Gilgamesh”) .
https://uruk-warka.dk/Gilgamish/The%20Epic%20of%20Gilgamesh.pdf
6) “Sujata bowed to him and shyly asked him to accept her special food offering of rice boiled in cream and sweetened with wild honey. Gautama smiled and ate the delicious rice, the best food he had had since leaving the palace. It made him feel strong and good. Then he rested in the grove until the heat of the grove had passed.” (Kohn, “The Life of the Buddha”)
part two:
Please read again closely the Patacara story found in the selection entitled “The Conversion of Patacara” (Course Reader). Make sure you understand the specific circumstances that first led her to leave her family and those that subsequently resulted in her suffering. Her choices and experiences will serve as the case study for you to demonstrate your understanding of the perspectives and applications of some of the wisdom traditions we have encountered so far.
300-400 words for each following wisdom tradition.
1.The “author” of Job
2.The Buddha
- Confucius
Sample Solution
