– Choose one of the research topics listed below. – Formulate a central question (which will be the title of your final essay), and three sub- questions. – Introduce your central question and indicate what the key objectives of your essay are. – Using the sub-questions, indicate how you plan to develop your final essay (in three sections). – Indicate a working bibliography of 10 academic sources that you plan to use for the final essay. Remember that the bibliography is not included in the word count. – Do not use bullet points. Write full paragraphs. – Remember that the essay proposal is not a mini-essay. It is a plan, which you can then use to prepare the final essay. ? Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and the problem of how to know what is right (yi) ? The differences between Mencius and Xunzis theories about human nature ? Xunzis theory of li and music ? Laozis notion of non-action ? Han Feizis attitudes towards moral development ? Contrasts between Dong Zhongshu and previous Confucianism
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