The analects were different teachings until the end were Confucius unties them all or gives an example of how someone would relate the lessons given. “The gentleman takes rightness as his substance, puts it into practice by means of ritual, gives it expression through modesty, and perfects it by being trustworthy. Now that is a gentleman!” (p.45 15.18) this is the perfect example of how should a person be according to Confucius. This gentleman described was the missing key to all of Confucian learning, this quotation marked me because it made me understand the book overall better than I did one week ago.
Book seventeen of the analects, talks about the six virtuous words and corresponding vices. This was my favorite part of the book because I learned from it and enjoyed reading it. “Loving Goodness without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of foolishness. Loving wisdom without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of deviance. Loving trustworthiness without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of harmful rigidity. Loving uprightness without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of intolerance. Loving courage without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of unruliness: Loving resoluteness without balancing it with a love for learning will result in the vice of willfulness.” (p.49 17.8) it explains how you should always have a passion to keep learning or to live. Living each day means learning something new that is why this quotation refers to passion. As you should have it for the rest of our lives. You can’t love without passion you can’t live without passion.
Passion for me is the key of life.
Monday, December 8, 2008
What Good Will It Do You?
Something that pre-ap English has teach is that you can analyze most of the texts either old or new, and that there will always be two sides of it. Like Confucius, you can look at it in many ways and interpret how you like and that is something you will find everywhere in the world interpretation depends on the person.
The analects so far have been confusing sometimes I have to reread a sentence about seven times and break it apart to understand it’s meaning clearly. .“Eating plain food and drinking water, having only your bent as a pillow – certainly there is joy to be found in this! Wealth and eminence attained improperly concern me no more than the floating clouds.”(p.20 7.16) having something but not having to work for it is the same thing as looking at the clouds, there are there for you but what to you get from them? Not much, wealth should be something you work for not something obtained. Bill Gates for example, does not plan to give his kids an enormous amount of money but instead they have to work for it as he did so they can learn that value of money and to get wealth is by obtaining it yourself.
“If you are responsible but lack ritual you will become exasperating; if you are careful but lack ritual you will become timid; if you are courageous but lack ritual you will become unruly; and if you are upright but lack ritual you will become inflexible.” (p.23 8.2) this could say something like if you are responsible sometimes you have no right to call yourself responsible. You can only do that when you do it with “ritual” or consistency. Moreover, if you do not do it with ritual then it makes no sense why would you be responsible on only one time, what is the point of that? What good will it does to you? It is like saying I did wrong, but only one time so I shouldn’t t be punished, is the same thing as saying responsible for one day. If you want to take advantage do it every day to accomplish satisfaction
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The analects so far have been confusing sometimes I have to reread a sentence about seven times and break it apart to understand it’s meaning clearly. .“Eating plain food and drinking water, having only your bent as a pillow – certainly there is joy to be found in this! Wealth and eminence attained improperly concern me no more than the floating clouds.”(p.20 7.16) having something but not having to work for it is the same thing as looking at the clouds, there are there for you but what to you get from them? Not much, wealth should be something you work for not something obtained. Bill Gates for example, does not plan to give his kids an enormous amount of money but instead they have to work for it as he did so they can learn that value of money and to get wealth is by obtaining it yourself.
“If you are responsible but lack ritual you will become exasperating; if you are careful but lack ritual you will become timid; if you are courageous but lack ritual you will become unruly; and if you are upright but lack ritual you will become inflexible.” (p.23 8.2) this could say something like if you are responsible sometimes you have no right to call yourself responsible. You can only do that when you do it with “ritual” or consistency. Moreover, if you do not do it with ritual then it makes no sense why would you be responsible on only one time, what is the point of that? What good will it does to you? It is like saying I did wrong, but only one time so I shouldn’t t be punished, is the same thing as saying responsible for one day. If you want to take advantage do it every day to accomplish satisfaction
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Ouch!
Confucianism is about the goodness of people. I had heard about Confucius before because my mom is interested in our cultural knowledge and usually takes us to museums. One time we were in Canada and they had an exposition on Confucius theories and about the Chinese. My mom bought the book about the theories but not the analects book we are reading right now so I had read about it before and I found it very interesting analyzing it in class.
“Those who are good feel at home in Goodness, whereas those who are clever follow Goodness because they feel that they will profit from it.” (p.10) this quotation I agree with, the world has become forced goodness. The school used to take us to the hogar forced us to there were some people who wanted to go but others just had to so they could benefit from it and avoid punishment. So we can see that celebrities some times donate money to foundations in order to clean their names or to look good which works but no necessarily is because they want to. Who is able to leave a room without going out through the door? How is it, then, that no one follows this Way? (p.17) this tells that people know that it is the only way but they try to find another when there isn’t one. This could also be people are sometimes not satisfied with what they have so they keep looking for something that is not there.
The things that I read seem to be something that you can use on daily bases. Because sometimes I am forced to do good but now, I can try to do it because I want to not because I have to. I felt bad reading Confucius because I realized I am not as good as a person I could be.
“Those who are good feel at home in Goodness, whereas those who are clever follow Goodness because they feel that they will profit from it.” (p.10) this quotation I agree with, the world has become forced goodness. The school used to take us to the hogar forced us to there were some people who wanted to go but others just had to so they could benefit from it and avoid punishment. So we can see that celebrities some times donate money to foundations in order to clean their names or to look good which works but no necessarily is because they want to. Who is able to leave a room without going out through the door? How is it, then, that no one follows this Way? (p.17) this tells that people know that it is the only way but they try to find another when there isn’t one. This could also be people are sometimes not satisfied with what they have so they keep looking for something that is not there.
The things that I read seem to be something that you can use on daily bases. Because sometimes I am forced to do good but now, I can try to do it because I want to not because I have to. I felt bad reading Confucius because I realized I am not as good as a person I could be.
Obama Accpetance Speech
Obama
He uses many rhetorical devices in his speech. Mostly, he uses pathos explaining that the ways are not going to be how it used to be and that America is going to change. He uses ethos when what changes he would make as a president. He uses forensic rhetoric blaming the old government, and uses demonstrative and deliberate rhetoric to show what he would do as a president.
He uses many rhetorical devices in his speech. Mostly, he uses pathos explaining that the ways are not going to be how it used to be and that America is going to change. He uses ethos when what changes he would make as a president. He uses forensic rhetoric blaming the old government, and uses demonstrative and deliberate rhetoric to show what he would do as a president.
Mighty Word Oh Mighty Word
Is the mighty word worth more than your friends? Well apparently it does, job’s friends could not convince him that god is good however, god said one word to him and made him change his mind. Job changed his mind when ironically god spoke to him. In this case, whom would you believe someone like your friends who have been there for you a long time a go or a voice that calls him-self god who you cursed? It is complicated but since we are in the bilbe times it us to expect that people listen to god.
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?” (Job.38.37-39) these are the words of wisdom god gave on to job to change his mind. However, if god appeared to my face and said this to me I would also believe him. The words god said are very true job only looked the bad side of god but who created us? Who gave us the things we enjoy for me god gave me chocolate.
Maybe jobs situation if you overlook it sounds ridiculous but after you take it in consideration you would probably act the same way as job did.
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?” (Job.38.37-39) these are the words of wisdom god gave on to job to change his mind. However, if god appeared to my face and said this to me I would also believe him. The words god said are very true job only looked the bad side of god but who created us? Who gave us the things we enjoy for me god gave me chocolate.
Maybe jobs situation if you overlook it sounds ridiculous but after you take it in consideration you would probably act the same way as job did.
He Seems To Be A Child
Job’s thoughts toward God never changed even though his friends tried to help him and convince him that he was good. “He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.” (Job.12.23.) He believed that god gave you something takes it away. However, this situation were his friends Zophar, Bildad, and Eliphaz are trying to help him and he refuses, for me is somewhat immature. “Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?” (Job.20.4-5.) this is some of what Zophar explains to him about god that I agree with because any evil done uncovered it will be. Yes, maybe Job is the first rebel or revolutionary character of the bible he has some philosophical believes different form every one at the time, yet he knows what is best for him but still he does not follow. Job is also immature to God because God is trying to teach him something but job just does not understand god and gives up.
I think this is an example of how people grow and maybe god just gave job the personality to think like that so he can later grow but you never know what would happen. He and his friends think very differently so they see god but with different eyes.
I think this is an example of how people grow and maybe god just gave job the personality to think like that so he can later grow but you never know what would happen. He and his friends think very differently so they see god but with different eyes.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
How Do I Know?
In the story of job, we see how job develops in to what was a “good person” to what became a bad person clamming himself to be perfect. We could say that job’s behavior had to with the devil trying to make him unhappy and manipulating so he could get in to power so went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.” Job 2 , which it is true but no matter what he, was tested and yet the next thing you know job is cursing god. “Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, there is a man child conceived. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.” (Job.3.3-4.)
This shows how can a situation make people change, at the begging job was a good person one that would never do anything wrong and later he just loose it. You never now what people will do unless something happen people change under situation and turn out to be someone you never expected, your best friend in any minute can become your worst enemy such as Satan did with god and angel turned to be dark. You just never know or do you?
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