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1、学术英语人文AcademicEnglishforHumanitiesLead-inTextATextBTextCAcademicLanguageandDiscourseListeningSpeakingWritingUnitContentsUnit10ChinesePhilosophyLead-inLead-inactivitiesUnit10ChinesePhilosophyThewayweare!Lead-inActivitiesInterpretthefollowingtermsfromancientChine
2、sephilosophy.a.Taob.WuWeic.Yind.YangAreyouaTaoistoraConfucian?Why?Lead-inTaoSupplementaryinformationTheword“Tao”isitselfafairlyvagueterm.Literally,itmeans“theway”,“thepath”,“theroad”,or“themethod”.Itishardtograsptheessenceof“Tao”,asithaslotsofconnotations.InTaois
3、m,thetermisoftenassociatedwithfluidityandconstantchange.InDaoDeJing,theTaoistcanon,Taoisoftendescribedastheuniverse,andasnothingness.Lead-inWuweiSupplementaryinformationWuweiisoneofthemostimportantconceptsinTaoism,secondonlytoTaoitself.Sometimestranslatedas“non-d
4、oing”or“non-action”,themostcommoninterpretationofthetermisactionthatisnatural.Itcanbesummarizedasthecultivationofastateofmindinwhichouractionsarequiteeffortlesslyinagreementwiththecyclesofnature.Lead-inYinandyangSupplementaryinformationYinandyangaretwooppositeyet
5、complementaryprinciplesorforcesinnature.TheyareimportantconceptsintraditionalChinesemedicineandphilosophy.Typically,thetermyinisusuallyassociatedwithsomethingnegative,dark,andfeminine,suchastheearth,darkness,femininity,cold,moisture,softnessandinactivity,etc.,whe
6、reasyangisconnectedwiththingsthatarepositive,bright,andmasculine,suchasthesky,light,masculinity,heat,drynessandactivity.ClassroomactivitiesSupplementaryinformationUnit10ChinesePhilosophyTextATaoismTaoismTextAClassroomactivitiesSummarizeTextAbaseonyouranswerstoTa
7、sk1/CriticalReadingandThinking/TextA.P200Suggestedanswer:(Tobecontinued)TextAClassroomactivitiesSuggestedanswer(cont.):TaoismWorkinpairstocompareyouranswerstothequestionsinTask2/CriticalReadingandThinking/TextA.P201TextASupplementaryinformationSuggestedanswerforQ
8、1:TaoisametaphysicaltermintheChinesephilosophyofTaoism.Itcannotbedefinedinexactwordsbecauseofitsabstractqualities.Literally,itmeans“theway”,“thepath”,“theroute