{"id":1546,"date":"2020-09-24T02:46:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T02:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/?page_id=1546"},"modified":"2021-08-19T20:55:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T20:55:08","slug":"live-like-a-confucian-week","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-confucian-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Like a Confucian Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1546\" class=\"elementor elementor-1546\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-501927d6 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"501927d6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-69f42387\" data-id=\"69f42387\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-517b5f39 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"517b5f39\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\"><span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium elementor-inline-editing pen\" data-elementor-setting-key=\"title\" data-pen-placeholder=\"Type Here...\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Tuesday, September 29 \u2013 Monday, October 5, 2020<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-76a9cd5c elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"76a9cd5c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7086d4dc\" data-id=\"7086d4dc\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70127941 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"70127941\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><b>Live Like a Confucian Week<\/b><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-165a6a0c elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"165a6a0c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7de0d26e\" data-id=\"7de0d26e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49f98aff elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"49f98aff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Tuesday, September 29<br \/>Day 1: Nurturing a Sprout<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-confucian-week\/llc1\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/R6rSzgFVi4C7CkuXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prompt for Evening Reflection and <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Dropbox for Journal Entry<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Wednesday, September 30<br \/>Day 2: Focusing on the Physical<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-confucian-week\/llc2\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/R6rSzgFVi4C7CkuXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prompt for Evening Reflection and <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Dropbox for Journal Entry<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Thursday, October 1<br \/>Day 3: Ritual Control<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-confucian-week\/llc3\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/R6rSzgFVi4C7CkuXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prompt for Evening Reflection and <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Dropbox for Journal Entry<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/R6rSzgFVi4C7CkuXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Friday, October 2<br \/>Day 4: Reflective Control<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-confucian-week\/llc4\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/R6rSzgFVi4C7CkuXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prompt for Evening Reflection and <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Dropbox for Journal Entry<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/R6rSzgFVi4C7CkuXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Saturday, October 3<br \/>Day 5: Diagnosing Microaggressions<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-confucian-week\/llc5\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/R6rSzgFVi4C7CkuXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prompt for Evening Reflection and <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Dropbox for Journal Entry<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Sunday, October 4<br \/>Day 6: Apt Worries, Needless Anxieties<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-confucian-week\/llc6\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/R6rSzgFVi4C7CkuXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prompt for Evening Reflection and <span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Dropbox for Journal Entry<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Monday, October 5<br \/>Day 7: Sincerity and Joy<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-confucian-week\/llc7\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/R6rSzgFVi4C7CkuXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prompt for Evening Reflection and Dropbox for Synthesis\u00a0Essay<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a4fd60b elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"4a4fd60b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-63bc5aac\" data-id=\"63bc5aac\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49e257d8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"49e257d8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Over the next seven days you will be putting some of Mengzi<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u2019<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">s and Xunzi<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u2019<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">s views of the good life into practice. The main goal is to engage in intentional work and then reflection on specific steps that Confucians teach. On each day of the week you will be assigned a particular activity to complete. Some of these activities will ask you to complete a task, reflect on a few questions, or engage in a thought experiment. Others will involve cultivating habits, changing your behavior with others in a certain way, or going about your everyday routine a little differently.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">All of the philosophical exercises for this week are located on this page and you will need to complete them daily. This will consist of two steps:<\/span><\/p><ol><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">At the start of each day in the morning, you should read the assigned exercises and carry them out\u2014you can keep this assignment open on your phone throughout the day for easy access.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">At the end of each day in the evening, you should submit\u00a0in the designated dropbox a short private <b>journal entry<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> (1-2 paragraphs, about 250 words) on what you\u2019ve learned.<\/span><\/li><\/ol><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Class periods and dialogue sessions that occur during the week will be devoted to discussing and working on your exercises individually or in groups.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">On the last day of this week (Monday, October 5) you will meet in your breakout section to have <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">a \u201cpostmortem\u201d discussion on your experiences putting Confucian views into practice.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Your final assignment for this unit will be a <b>synthesis essay<\/b>\u00a0due before 12pm on<b> Tuesday, October 6<\/b> on how\/whether the approach to living well that you have put into practice has affected your outlook on life. Were some exercises particularly illuminating or instructive? Do you have a better appreciation for Mengzi<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u2019<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">s and Xunzi\u2019s views after putting parts of them into practice? How viable do you find this approach to the good life? What have you learned about yourself?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Specifically, you should review your journal entries for the week and write an essay of approximately 1000 words summarizing your final reflections on Confucianism\u2019s approach to the good life. Your essay should engage with at least one of the theoretical views that we have covered in this unit: e.g., the contrast between focusing on profit (or physical inclinations) versus moral sprouts and their corresponding virtues; the role that public policies and socio-political engagement play in moral growth; different ideas of \u201cnature\u201d versus \u201cdisposition,\u201d as well as the claim that we can transform our dispositions so as to act well spontaneously. Cite the texts we have studied where possible.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Readings for the assigned exercises and evening reflections this week are drawn from:<\/span><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><em>The Essential Mengzi: Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary<\/em>, translated by Bryan Van Norden (Hackett, 2009)<\/li><li><em>Xunzi: The Complete Text<\/em>, translated by Eric Hutton (Princeton University Press, 2016)<\/li><li><em>The Essential Analects: Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary<\/em>, translated by Edward Slingerland\u00a0(Hackett, 2006)<\/li><\/ul><ul style=\"list-style: none;\"><li><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-46e605ff elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"46e605ff\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-618d515b\" data-id=\"618d515b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-14e10838 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"14e10838\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, September 29 \u2013 Monday, October 5, 2020 Live Like a Confucian Week Tuesday, September 29Day 1: Nurturing a Sprout Assigned Exercise Prompt for Evening Reflection and Dropbox for Journal Entry Wednesday, September 30Day 2: Focusing on the Physical Assigned Exercise Prompt for Evening Reflection and Dropbox for Journal Entry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1546","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}