UTS Quiz 4

The person, in striving to be a better person, does not create a self above other people or nature but a self that is beneficial to his/her community as well as in order and in harmony with everything else.

• Confucianism and Taoism

• Buddhism

• Nirvana

• Self-cultivation

is a place of perfect peace and happiness, like heaven.

• Buddhism

• Nirvana

• Taoism

• Confucianism

The self is seen as an illusion, born out of ignorance, of trying to hold and control things, or human-centeredness, thus the seld is also the source of all these suffering.

• Confucianism

• Taoism

• Buddhism

• Nirvana

is seen as the ultimate purpose in life, but the characteristics of a chun-tzu, a man of virtue or noble character is still embedded in his/her social relationship.

• Self-cultivation

• Selflessness

• Cultivation

• Enlightenment

On the other hand, _______ sees the other person  as apart of yourself as well as the things you may create, a drama in which their specific roles. -the Eastern perspective-

• the Western perspective

• the Eastern perspective

• the Southern perspective

• the Northern perspective

Code of conduct, is a subdued self – it is conditioned to respond to perceptions, not of its own need and aspirations, but of social requirments and obligations wherein the personal need are repressed for the good of many, making Confucianism society also hierarchal for the purpose of maintaining order and balance in society.

• True

• False

Base on taoism the ideal self is SELFLESSNESS

• True

• False

As for Buddhism, the self, with all its connections and selfish ideas, is totally taken, not just out of the center of the picture, but out if the picture as a whole.

• True

• False

Western perspective does discount the role of environment and society in the formation of the self but the focus is always looking towards the self.

• True

• False

Westerners would most likely call their boss, parents, or other seniors by their first name.

• True

• False