REL 101 Class notes, Week 4, Lecture 2
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Early Chinese Religion and Culture
551-478 BCE: Confucius, founder of Confucianism
Herbert Fingarette, Confucius -
The Secular as Sacred
Ch. 1: Human Community as Holy Rite (Li 禮)
Moral Charisma vs. Ritual Magic
Secular as Sacred Ritual Order
Ch. 2: Way without a Crossroads
Ch. 3: The Locus of the Personal
Role-based view of individual
flourishing
Holistic view of person - not psychological
Ch. 4: Traditionalist or Visionary
Tradition, Selection, Interpretation,
Innovation
Ch. 5: A Confucian Metaphor - The Holy Vessel
The individual as the conduit of cosmic
virtue
Confucius (Kong Fuzi [K'ung Fu-Tzu]) 孔夫子,
Analects of
Confucius [Lunyu] (論語)