Eastern thought trivia

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• Which book tells of the man who boasted of a spear that pierces anything and a shield nothing can pierce, the source of the East Asian word for contradiction?Eastern thought
• Which monk of Silla in Korea is famous for the story of awakening on realising that the water he had gratefully drunk in the night had pooled in a skull?Eastern thought
• Which disciple, said to be Confucius's favourite, delighted in learning despite poverty and died young?Eastern thought
• Which early Chinese school is known for the argument that a white horse is not a horse?Eastern thought
• What name is given to the Confucian ideal world in which everything under heaven belongs to all and people help and share with one another?Eastern thought
• In Confucianism, what name is given to the five virtues of humaneness, rightness, ritual propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness taken together?Eastern thought
• Looking back on his life, what did Confucius say he had reached at forty?Eastern thought
• Which thinker argued that human nature is bad and must be straightened out by teaching and ritual?Eastern thought
• Which book is the source of the saying that if you know the enemy and know yourself, you will not be imperilled in a hundred battles?Eastern thought
• Which Neo-Confucian scholar of Korea's Joseon dynasty went by the pen name Yulgok?Eastern thought
• Confucius said that holding what you know as known and what you do not know as unknown is what knowing really means.Eastern thought
• Confucius said that the wise delight in mountains and the humane delight in water.Eastern thought
• The story of the mother who moved house three times for her son's education is about the mother of Confucius.Eastern thought
• Philosophical Daoism is the line of thought of Laozi and Zhuangzi, while religious Daoism grew out of it by adding the quest for immortality and folk beliefs.Eastern thought
• Mencius held that even a tyrant who harms the people must not be driven out by his subjects.Eastern thought
• In the generating cycle of the five phases, metal gives rise to water.Eastern thought
• Zhuangzi taught that a tree useless as timber ought to be cut down and cleared away.Eastern thought
• In yin-yang thought, the sun and daytime belong to yin, and the moon and night belong to yang.Eastern thought
• The Analects opens with a line asking whether it is not a joy to learn and, in due season, to practise what one has learned.Eastern thought
• Confucius said that when three people walk together, there is a teacher for me among them.Eastern thought
• Which Confucian classic lays out the sequence of cultivating yourself, ordering the household, then governing the state?Eastern thought
• Which three are counted together as the great currents of East Asian thought?Eastern thought
• Which classic is traditionally credited to Laozi as the central text of Daoism?Eastern thought
• Who drew the several strands of Legalism together into one system?Eastern thought
• What name is given to the five duties between people, such as ruler and subject or parent and child?Eastern thought
• Confucius said not to do to others what you would not want done to yourself. Which virtue was he naming?Eastern thought
• What is the name for the period when countless schools pressed rival doctrines against one another in early China?Eastern thought
• Which strand of learning did Zhu Xi of the Song dynasty rebuild and bring into one system?Eastern thought
• What did Mozi call his stand against attacking other states?Eastern thought
• The Four Books of Confucianism are the Analects, the Mencius, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean.Eastern thought
• The butterfly dream in the Zhuangzi turns on the boundary between dreaming and waking.Eastern thought
• Whose sayings and teachings are collected in the Analects?Eastern thought
• Confucius placed ren (仁) at the root of what it means to be fully human.Eastern thought
• Mencius held that human nature is bad to begin with.Eastern thought
• The Legalists held that rites and music should sit at the centre of governing a state.Eastern thought
• Laozi is regarded as the representative figure of Daoist thought.Eastern thought
• In Confucian thought, the duty of serving one's parents devotedly is called xiao (孝).Eastern thought
• In Daoism, wuwei means doing nothing at all and staying still.Eastern thought
• The thinkers who shaped Chinese philosophy appeared most thickly during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.Eastern thought
• Mozi taught that you should love your own family first and put everyone else after them.Eastern thought