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At Home in Virtue
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on November 24, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Classics, money, obeying, obedient, external, harmony, domain, balanced, piety, complete, trustworthiness, battle, appreciate, MacIntyre, human, parent, right, chess, actions, situation, Zhou, timidity, perception, motivated
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virtue
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a disposition to behave in the right way in a particular type of
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to perceive the situation in the way
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virtues are specific
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specific Confucius virtues
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1. filial
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the virtual of being a good, child
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a suite of actions and emotions that instruct how the child should act in relation to the
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actions: serving,
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emotions: respect, deference
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domain: obedience toward parents
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2.
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domain: relations with friends, professional peers, and superiors, matching of words with
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become trustworthy and reliable
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3. courage
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inherited from the dynasty
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more has to do with courage in
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Confucian understanding is more social courage
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unafraid to say the right thing
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domain: situations involving risk
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proper
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striking a balance between (not enough courage) and rash (too much courage)
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knowing when a situation requires you to do something courageous and when it doesn't
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4. Goodness (ren)
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very general and hard to understand
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the virtue of having all the other virtues in the right proportion
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the virtue of being a good being
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also sometimes translated as "humanness" because of the etymology
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the general virtue of being a fully realized Confucian gentleman
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perfection of of lesser virtues
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balanced, using virtues appropriately as to keep them out of conflict
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the virtue of when to know when to exercise the other virtues at the right time and in the situation
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the person
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you have all the virtues and you have them where they should be, they are perfectly
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when virtues come into concept you know how to balance them in behavior
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Confucius is leery of calling anyone ren
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how does one get it
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the way of the Zhou Dynasty
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practice ritual
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read the
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do music
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external vs. internal goods
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Alasdair
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internal goods
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something that is realized only through the practice itself
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joy of chess
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you can only appreciate through the practice itself
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music
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sports
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Goodness
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goods
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can be realized in other ways
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you want a child to come to like playing
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you might tempt them by using external goods
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candy
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eventually the child will appreciate the game for internal reasons
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we should be to do the goods for internal purposes not external
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not for money
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appreciate the meaningfulness of the Confucian way
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it's hard to judge if someone is a Confucian gentleman since want counts is if they the goods internally
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psychology
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intrinsic motivation
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you are motivated in the absence of any external reward
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out of curiosity
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playfulness
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satisfaction
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extrinsic motivation
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doing it for money
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if you give people for doing things, they value it less
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can impair your ability to appreciate the internal goods of the practice
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you should become intrinsically motivated
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the Confucian path to joy (Le)
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diagnostic
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indicates one has come to appreciate the internal good of Confucian practice
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makes you independent of external goods
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Analects 7.13
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Eating plain food and drinking water, having only your bent arm 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.
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Jen We is often displayed as someone who has Le
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Civilization and human nature
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Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents
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Kultur und Sein Unbehagen
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Unbehagen: uncomfortable and being creeped out
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Freud says nature is horrible
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we were never secure, constant fighting
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in civilization, we are also never satisfied
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we learned to sublimate our desires
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when one writes an article critiquing rival's intellectual position
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Freud would say what one really wants to do is kill that rival and take his spouse
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but you aren't able to do that anymore, so one says something clever and biting at a conference
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there is some satisfaction in this but not as much as the original fulfillment of the desire
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this is the tragedy: we are always living on this thin soup of sublimated desires
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Confucian model:
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we are not stuck being Unbehagen all the time
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we can learn to be at home
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"at peace" (an)
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the gentleman is at home in virtue
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we can take joy in civilized nature
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corrected:
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absense
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absence
Ideas and Concepts:
The Confucian obervirtue via tonight's Ancient Chinese Philosophy class: "Of all the Confucian virtues, the virtue "ren" is the most misunderstood. Above all, it is the virtue of having all the other virtues in the right proportion, the virtue of being a good human being, sometimes translated as "humanness" because of its etymology. It is the general virtue of having perfection of harmony of the lesser virtues, being balanced, using virtues appropriately as to keep them in harmony and out of conflict, the virtue of knowing when to exercise the other virtues at the right time and in the right proportion, the virtue of being the complete person, of being someone who has all the virtues, yet when these virtues come into conflict, knows how to balance them appropriately in behavior."
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