Discussion: Confucius, Taoist and Shinto Concepts
Answering the below questions. Provide references, if you use references to develop your answers.
1. Choose one of the Analects of Confucius to discuss.
Why did you find it compelling? Share a personal example where you have found it to be true.
2. Explain the Taoist concepts of ancestor worship and the "yin and the yang". How are these concepts if at all, related or unrelated to western religious ideas?
3. What are the central ideas in Shinto about who or what God is? What role does the Islands of Japan have in Shinto? How did Shinto shape the Japanese concept of war in WW II?