Section 3: Detailed Reading C Buddhism may have captured popular fancy in China. but against its influence the true Confucianist was always inwardly resentful, for it was, in the eyes of humanism, only an escape from life, or a negation of the truly human life 6 On the other hand the modern world with its over- development of machinery, has not taken time to ensure that man enjoys what he makes. The glorification of the plumber in America has made man forget that one can live a very happy life without hot and cold running water, and 曰曰
Section 3: Detailed Reading [5] Buddhism may have captured popular fancy in China, but against its influence the true Confucianist was always inwardly resentful, for it was, in the eyes of humanism, only an escape from life, or a negation of the truly human life. 6 On the other hand, the modern world, with its overdevelopment of machinery, has not taken time to ensure that man enjoys what he makes. The glorification of the plumber in America has made man forget that one can live a very happy life without hot and cold running water, and
Section 3: Detailed Reading that in France and germany many men have lived to comfortable old age and made important scientific discoveries and written masterpieces with their water jug and old- fashioned basin. There needs to be a religion which will transcribe Jesus' famous dictum about the sabbath and constantly preach that the machine is made for man and not man made for machine. For after all, the sum of all human wisdom and the problem of all human knowledge is how man shall remain a man and how he shall best enjoy his life. QUESTION ACTIVITY
Section 3: Detailed Reading that in France and Germany many men have lived to comfortable old age and made important scientific discoveries and written masterpieces with their water jug and oldfashioned basin. There needs to be a religion which will transcribe Jesus’ famous dictum about the Sabbath and constantly preach that the machine is made for man and not man made for machine. [6] For after all, the sum of all human wisdom and the problem of all human knowledge is how man shall remain a man and how he shall best enjoy his life. QUESTION ACTIVITY
Section 3: Detailed Reading How does the author define chinese humanism? (Paragraph 1) The author's definition of chinese humanism is threefold first it means the ends of life: second. it implies a devotion to the ends; third, it presupposes the attainment of the ends by means of a Chinese spirit or philosophy of human reasonableness
Section 3: Detailed Reading How does the author define Chinese humanism? (Paragraph 1) The author’s definition of Chinese humanism is threefold: first, it means the ends of life; second, it implies a devotion to the ends; third, it presupposes the attainment of the ends by means of a Chinese spirit or philosophy of human reasonableness
Section 3: Detailed Reading Why, according to the author, have Western philosophers failed to make clear the meaning of life?(Paragraph 2) Western philosophers, from Socrates in ancient Greece to Nietzsche in modern days, have failed to provide an answer to the question What is the meaning of life? "Their common problem is that they have placed too much emphasis on"the next life?and unduly neglected satisfaction in“ this life
Section 3: Detailed Reading Why, according to the author, have Western philosophers failed to make clear the meaning of life? (Paragraph 2) Western philosophers, from Socrates in ancient Greece to Nietzsche in modern days, have failed to provide an answer to the question “What is the meaning of life?” Their common problem is that they have placed too much emphasis on “the next life” and unduly neglected satisfaction in “this life
Section 3: Detailed Reading What does the poem that the author quotes mean? How does it illustrate the Chinese ideal of life?(Paragraphs 3 and 4) The poem offers, according to the author, not just a pleasant poetic mood but the summum bonum(至善) of life. It depicts a scenario of peaceful and leisurely life characterized by a spree and happiness. That represents the chinese ideal of life: simple but healthily enjoyable
Section 3: Detailed Reading What does the poem that the author quotes mean? How does it illustrate the Chinese ideal of life? (Paragraphs 3 and 4) The poem offers, according to the author, not just a pleasant poetic mood but the summum bonum (至善) of life. It depicts a scenario of peaceful and leisurely life characterized by a spree and happiness. That represents the Chinese ideal of life: simple but healthily enjoyable