At first glance, Christian doctrine and Chinese Confucianism have no similarities that are worth mentioning. However, in the sixteenth century Jesuit missionaries attempted to convert the Chinese people by finding similarities between Confucianism and Christianity. These similarities applied to traditional forms of Confucianism, as opposed to Neo-Confucianism. The most prominent Jesuit missionary of this time was Matteo Ricci. Ricci was the first European to be granted access to the Forbidden City
have greatly impacted history. Those religions are Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Those seven religions can be broken up into three different group Confucianism and Taoism, Buddhism and Hinduism, and the people of the book (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam). Each of these groups have similarities and differences and that is what we will be finding out in this essay. Confucianism has six basic beliefs they are education, humans are naturally good, being
the culture believed and held to be true. Hinduism, Confucianism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism all preached peace and nonviolence. Each religion or philosophy had standards or beliefs that followers abided by in order to live their lives to the fullest potential. Hinduism and Confucianism encouraged followers to strive for purity and to follow the spiritual path in order to set an example for people among them. To the contrary, Christianity and Zoroastrianism focused on individual salvation which
unpleasant or offensive words so that individuals would substitute relatively indirect terms to avoid cultural sensitivity. This paper attempts to make a contrastive analysis of Chinese and English death euphemism and expound the causes of their similarities and differences from various aspects. To begin with, regardless of nations, religions or customs, individuals hold similar or, to some extent, same attitudes towards death, which is a law of nature that
Periodization Essay Through periodization, we can observe several continuities and more importantly, the dramatic changes between the ancient times (Paleolithic and Neolithic ages), and the classical era. Even though we have similarities between the two periods of time, there are many more differences that it can be referred to as a cataclysmic event as in history itself, has suffered much change throughout the centuries. It is imperative that we discern how we got to present time, by studying