Exercise III

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Set A. Simple Recall. Write your answer before each number.

1. This is how Mencius views human nature.
2. This is one of the four books that illustrate the core value of Confucianism.
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4. They are known as the Greek Triumvirate
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6. The Latin version of the name Meng-Tze.
7. A term used to described a person with profound wisdom
8. He is revered until today as the best teacher and advocate of Confucian principle.
9. The two dynasties that used the four books as the core curriculum for civil
service examination.
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Set B. True or False. Write True if the statement is correct and False if otherwise. Write your
answers before each number.
1. According to Mencius, man by nature is good because he do good acts.
2. For Mencius, man does good acts because by nature man is good.
3. Human person’s basic goodness will fade away when he became part of a corrupt society.
4. Mencius affirmed that all men have a sense of sympathy.
5. The person’s basic goodness will never go away.
6. Mencius is a contemporary of Plato and Aristotle.
7. Men when left to follow its natural feelings will always do good according to Mencius.
8. Human person’s goodness though overtaken by the evils of the can still be recovered.
9. Man’s goodness is extrinsic only to man.
10. Mencius was born on 731 BC.

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