{"id":16431,"date":"2023-04-22T02:17:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T02:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/you-can-imagine-yourself-a-confucian-a-daoist-a-shintoist-you-are-to-pick-one-tradition-to-write-your-empathy-paper-on\/"},"modified":"2023-04-22T02:17:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T02:17:52","slug":"you-can-imagine-yourself-a-confucian-a-daoist-a-shintoist-you-are-to-pick-one-tradition-to-write-your-empathy-paper-on","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/you-can-imagine-yourself-a-confucian-a-daoist-a-shintoist-you-are-to-pick-one-tradition-to-write-your-empathy-paper-on\/","title":{"rendered":"you can imagine yourself a Confucian, a Daoist, a Shint\u014dist, You are to pick one tradition to write your empathy paper on,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Empathy papers are papers of 3 pages (750-900 words) demonstrating your empathic understanding of certain dimensions of the traditions covered in this course. Imagine that you were a believer\/practitioner of a tradition studied, and reflect upon how its worldview, doctrines, and\/or practices would affect you personally. That is, try to look at the ideas and practices as an insider of the tradition, and consider the benefits, limitations, or struggles those ideas and practices may bring to your daily life. Use the present tense and relate \u201cyour life\u201d in a matter-of-fact fashion. (That is, instead of saying \u201cIf I were to adopt X as my religion, I would have to make a change to do Y,\u201d it will be more effective to say \u201cI am a follower of X, and in my daily life I experience Y.\u201d The former is still commenting as an outsider looking in, and the latter is putting yourself in the shoes of an insider.) You are expected to be both appreciative and critical about the tradition, rather than being completely for or against it. For instance, \u201cI am a follower of X, and I practice Y, which gets me through difficult times, but practice Z has limited my choice in&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Note that a real-life \u201cinsider\u201d necessarily has a social location determined by gender, age, class, geographical location (in their homeland or in the U.S., for example), sub-tradition, individual practice, etc. That is, the more specific you are with your \u201cinsider\u201d persona, the more realistic your empathy paper will be. Stated differently, it will not be a good paper if you simply repeat the sentences in the books or the lectures, or make broad statements like \u201cmy religion is all about peace and love.\u201d It should suffice to draw from what we cover in class, and our class material should be your focus. Additional research, while welcome, is not necessary and should not eclipse the class material. All sources must be properly cited.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In Unit Three you can imagine yourself a Confucian, a Daoist, a Shint\u014dist, or someone who has taken all of the \u201cThree Teachings\u201d into their life without exclusively identifying with either (as most East Asians typically do). You are to pick one tradition to write your empathy paper on, and you may NOT submit an empathy paper on a previous unit.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empathy papers are papers of 3 pages (750-900 words) demonstrating your empathic understanding of certain dimensions of the traditions covered in this course. Imagine that you were a believer\/practitioner of a tradition studied, and reflect upon how its worldview, doctrines, and\/or practices would affect you personally. That is, try to look at the ideas and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1108],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/16431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/16431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=16431"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=16431"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=16431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}