Week 14 Quiz

In Dataset I, the course's world philosophies set, to which tradition is wu wei (effortless, non-forcing action) keyed?

Select one.

• Confucian
• Daoist
• Buddhist
• Ubuntu (Southern African)

Which Confucian concept does the course gloss as ritual propriety, the fitting conduct that gives humaneness a shape?

Select one.

• ren
• junzi
• ziran
• li

True or false: the course says that Laozi is known for certain to have written every line of the Daodejing.

True or false.

• True
• False

The chariot, the Week 14 case on the course's thought-experiment roster, asks whether a person is anything over and above their parts. From which source does it come?

Select one.

• the Questions of King Milinda
• Plutarch's Life of Theseus
• the Analects
• the Daodejing, traditionally attributed to Laozi

A classmate says, "The Buddhist teaching of no-self means that nobody really exists." What does the teaching, as the course states it, deny?

Select one.

• that persons exist at all, even as a changing collection of parts
• that body and consciousness are real
• a permanent self beyond a changing collection of parts
• that anything changes over time

In the Buddha's Four Noble Truths, what does the second truth name as the origin of suffering?

Select one.

• the Noble Eightfold Path
• ritual propriety
• a permanent self
• craving

Which statement about the maxim umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu matches the course?

Select one.

• It is a Zulu maxim, and the English line is a common gloss of it.
• It is an English saying later put into Zulu.
• Its English gloss is the maxim's own original wording.
• It is a Confucian saying from the Analects.

A classmate says ubuntu is a collectivism that erases the individual. Which reply matches the course?

Select one.

• Ubuntu holds that only the group's choices count.
• The maxim is about how a person becomes a person, so relationships form the individual.
• Ubuntu is a Daoist idea about effortless, non-forcing action.
• Ubuntu denies that persons exist, as no-self is said to do.

Select every concept that Dataset I keys to the Confucian tradition.

Select every option that applies.

• ren
• li
• junzi
• ziran
• dukkha
• relational personhood

The course compares Kant's ethics with Daoist wu wei on the question of how one should act. Where, on the course's comparison, do the two views part?

Select one.

• over which of the two traditions is the superior and more truly philosophical one
• over whether persons exist apart from their parts
• over whether the best action takes effort against what you want or flows without forcing
• over whether ritual propriety is the same as custom