Write your answers in a one whole sheet of yellow paper. Submit your answers on Monday, Oct 9 2017, not later than 9:00AM. Thank you.
This is a good time to apply the different theories and approaches we have learned all through the almost 4 years of being in the university :-) Let us enjoy and learn!
Answer as precisely and profoundly.
1.
For each of the Tao discussed in the classroom,
create a couplet.
2.
Choose a personal Confucian teaching tackled in
the classroom. Relate the teaching to your current personal situation.
3.
In Hoichi the earless, why do you think the ear
was loosely treated by the priest believing the assistant would take care of
it? How did it affect the whole story?
4.
What is
the metaphorical importance of the title “Hoichi, the earless”?
5.
What does the “The Woman and Her Five Suitors”
tell you about the nature of men and women (give at least 3)? Is it true up to
this time? If yes, how? If no, why?
