Confucianism Good Society Social and Ethical Philosophy Assignment Prompt This week you have an option of which prompt you would like to respond to. Pleas

Confucianism Good Society Social and Ethical Philosophy Assignment Prompt

This week you have an option of which prompt you would like to respond to. Please choose either Prompt 1 or Prompt 2 and thoroughly address the questions included in that prompt.

Prompt 1

1. Identify the key value or concept within Confucianism that you find most important for establishing a good society. Explain this value or concept. Then explain why you find this key value or concept to be important for a good society.

2. Do you think Confucianism left out any values or concepts essential for establishing the foundation of a good society? If not, explain why. If so, what value should be included and why?

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Prompt 2

1. Whether Confucianism qualifies as a religion is debatable. Briefly explain one of the reasons it is and one of the reasons it is not considered a religion, drawing on Huston Smith’s explanation in the text The Worlds Religions.

2. Express your own view on whether it should be classified as a religion. Draw on the definitions of religion we explored in Unit 1 to help you do so.