Lonesome Rhodes
Paper Details Write a character study of lonesome Rhodes, protagonist in a face in the crowd, The 1957 classic film. here are some questions to consider: is lonesome Rhodes static are dynamic?, how does he change or not change?, is he a narcissist?, an egomaniac? a psychopath?, or just a drunk in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Confucianism, Confucius and
Confucian classics
About 2,500 years ago, a man was born to a once aristocratic family
in a small state called Lu in East China. During his lifetime, the man
endeavoured to work ‘towards a goal the realisation of which he knows
to be hopeless’ (Lunyu, I4: 38), carrying forward the old tradition in a
chaotic environment and opening up a new horizon in a dark age. By the
time he died at the age of seventy-three, his teachings had spread through-
out the state and beyond. His disciples and students compared him to
the sun and moon, while his rivals considered him a man ‘who does not
work with his arms and legs and who does not know how to distinguish
between different kinds of grain’ (Lunyu, 18: 7). But there was one thing
that neither side knew: that Chinese culture, and to some extent, East
Asian culture, would be forever linked with his name, and that the tradi-
tion he loved and transmitted would rank with the greatest in the world.
This tradition is known in the West as ‘Confucianism’.
‘Confucianism’ and m
The origin of the English word ‘Confucianism’ may be traced back to
the Jesuits of the sixteenth century:
Until Nicholas Trigault published his version of Ricci’s journals
in T6T 5, there was hardly any knowledge of, not to say debate about,
Confucianism . . . The Jesuits were Virtually the first Europeans to
discover Confucius and Confucianism, ‘the sect of the literati’ as they
not inaccurately called it . . . The Jesuits, representatives of European
values and intellectual methods, attempted . . . to understand Chinese
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