WORLD RELIGIONS

RELIGIONS

SHINTO

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The teachings of Confucius encouraged people to
A
believe in reincarnation
B
put their own interests first
C
reject government authority
D
follow a code of moral, ethical and good behavior
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Confucian solution. Confucius believed that to restore order, societies had to encourage certain virtues, such as loyalty, trustworthiness, and respecting your elders. He believed people were capable of attaining these and other virtues through education.

Detailed explanation-2: -Confucius’ ethics basically asserts that filial piety and fraternal love are the roots of humaneness, the foundation and origin of human morality; all social goods are extensions of family ethics.

Detailed explanation-3: -Confucius said people should practise five virtues: kindness, goodness, honesty, modesty, wisdom and trustworthiness.

Detailed explanation-4: -Confucius’s teachings focused on ethics, or proper behavior, for individuals and governments. He said that people should conduct their lives according to two basic principles. These principles were ren, or concern for others, and li, or appropriate behavior.

Detailed explanation-5: -The worldly concern of Confucianism rests upon the belief that human beings are fundamentally good, and teachable, improvable, and perfectible through personal and communal endeavor, especially self-cultivation and self-creation. Confucian thought focuses on the cultivation of virtue in a morally organised world.

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