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confusionism
Title: confusionism
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 2412 | Pages: 10.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
confusionism
Confucianism
By Spencer J. Palmer
The Confucian focus upon moral example, as the basis of harmony in society, government, and the universe is consistent with LDS views. However, Confucius was not interested in metaphysics or theology; he did not advocate belief in God, nor did he talk about life after death. He was concerned with humans in their social setting.
Arguments that Confucianism is not a religion have often been answered by references to its …showed first 75 words of 2412 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2412 total…should read as a pair; they complement each other in much the same way these two religions complemented each other throughout Chinese history.
Ed. note: The extent to which both Confucianism and Maoism continue to influence contemporary China is a subject of scholarly interpretation. For different views on this question, see Meisner, Maurice, Mao's China: A History of the People's Republic, Free Press 1977, and Harding, Harry, Organizing China: The problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976, Stanford University Press, 1981.
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