Encouraging Learning
To pursue learning is to be a man, to give up is to be a ______
what is a beast
What word is used to describe the "evil" or "bad" man
what is the petty man
What are Rites?
What is a means of providing satisfaction
Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of________
what is conscious activity
The learning of a gentleman is manifested through his ______ serving as a model for those around him
What is ritual
what period of mourning expresses the most honor and which expresses the least?
If man is born evil we must abide the _______ and _______ to achieve goodness
what are sage kings and ritual principles
Who's words are handed down to understand the importance of learning
what is ancient kings
A gentleman must be able to suppress _______ in favor of public right
What is personal desire
when good order and good reason are combined and completed with the proper forms, this is called ______
what is the highest flourishing of rites
Difference between nature and deliberate action
what is nature cannot be learned or acquired and deliberate action (conscious activity) can be achieved through learning and completion by effort
Where does learning begin and where does it end?
What is the recitation of the classics and the reading of the ritual texts
What do you use to "soften" a temperament that is to "strong and stubborn"?
What is harmony
What follows man trying to self satisfy his desires
what is reform man's emotional nature and make it uptight, in order to train and transform it and guide it in the proper channels
What factors encompass all that is between heaven and earth?
what is the reverence and order of the rituals, the fitness and harmony of music, the breadth of the odes and documents, the subtlety of the spring and Autumn Annals
List 3 of the characteristics that define a man as "ill-omened"
What is, wanton, reckless, disobedient, vicious, evil, lacking in brotherly feeling
What are the 3 bases of rites?
what is heaven and earth are basis of life, ancestors are basis of family, and rulers and teachers are the basis of order
Define goodness and evil
What is upright, reasonable and orderly. What is prejudiced, irresponsible, and chaotic