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| Kongzi/Master Kong (Confucious) |
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| 551-479 BCE, a scholar whose sayings and teaching are the basis for Confucianism |
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| key collection of Master Kong's sayings |
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| "sympathy":empathy towards others |
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| "propriety of action": good manners and doing what is right |
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| "reciprocity": don't treat others how you don't want to be treated |
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| "filial piety": devotion to family |
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| "culture": love of culture, celebrate culture |
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| the ideal man, a gentleman who properly follows the rites and embodies virtue |
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| (Heaven) is an impersonal force that projects a cosmic order (Dao) which can be recreated on earth through the implementation of a certain form of society that includes the proper kind of relationships, follows certain rites, and exemplifies certain virtues |
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| Father and son, ruler and subject, husband and wife, elder sibling and younger sibling, elder and younger |
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| "Old Boy" or "Old Master" who is said both to have lived in the 6th century BCE, around the time of Master Kong, and to have written his wisdom into the Daodejing becfore disappearing out of China to the West |
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| Daodejing- a short collection of aphormisms, generally about the nature of the Dao, addressed to the ruler, who is to serve as an example of wu wei for his subjects |
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| "the great order or way" that is built into the nature of the cosmos that should be reflected in human society |
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| "no action"-don't meddle with things, one can act but should only do so spontaneously, unconsciously, never imposing on or interfering with the natural flow of things |
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| key scripture of Daoism consists on inner chapters: which recommends disengagement from the world as part of living in accordance with the Dao, and contains witty and imaginative interpretations of the Dao |
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| anything that is extraordinary, from parts of nature to glorified human beings |
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| important Shinto kami who is said to have given birth to the Japanese islands |
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| important Shinto kami who is said to have given birth to the Japanese islands with Izanagi |
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| involves kami worship, rice wine, and banquet food |
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| the way the tradition describes the world |
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| the capacity of the religion to save/deliver/liberate people |
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| our tradition is right about truth and/or salvation, other traditions are wrong and only members of our tradition can achieve salvation |
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| our tradition is the most correct about truth and/or salvation, and other traditions may be partially correct, but our is still the best |
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| most traditions are right about truth and/or salvation(lots of members of different traditions can achieve salvation) |
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| wrote the paper on pluralism |
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| "The great world faiths embody different perceptions and conceptions of, and correspondingly different responses to, the Real from within the major variant ways of being human; and that within each of them the transformation of human existence from self-centeredness to reality centeredness is taking place" |
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| the belief that only one god exists |
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| current day middle-east (region where enuma elish is found) |
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| the first book of the bible, contains creation myth |
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Marduk- the hero god of Enuma Elish, who defeats Tiamat in combat to become the king of the gods and creates the world from her body
Tiamat- the god of the ocean in Enuma Elish; the owrld is created from her body after Marduk defeats her in combat |
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| fights and beats Yamm in Canaanite Combat Myth and builds a temple for himself |
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| fights and loses against Baal in the Canaanite Combat Myth |
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| the God of the Isaelites who came to be viewed as the one and only God. |
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| indicate that prediction of the future played only a limited role in prophetic activity and that prediction into the distant future had virtually no role |
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| a man who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt in the Exodus event, which is dated to around 1300 BCE. he encountered Yahweh directly on Mt. Sinai and there he is said to have made a covenant with Yahweh |
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| between larger (sovereign) and smaller (vassal) parties---similar to the convenant between yahweh and the israelites |
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| a two-way agreement most fully established between the Israelites if they upheld His law, which can be found in the Torah |
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