Talk:Confucius

New comments in Spring 2013

Hi, please look at the spelling error in your file name "Cunfucius.ppt". Also, the file is not complete, since it was larger than allowed. I will split it into 2 files and upload it again, as well as get rid of the side "Kong Fuzi". Please integrate your findings in the existing article. I am looking forward your midterm paper. Thank you! Root (talk) 22:00, 19 February 2013 (CET)

Please work also on the travels of Confucius and talk about the possibility that they were made up by Mencius and why.

Please look again through the powerpoint presentation for consistency of referring to Confucius as "I" and not as "He".

You can also explain on the slide with the names, from when on these names were used. And you can indicate (in the mid-term paper), that the use of "Kongzi" in a text helps us to date it, because dating is crucial for seeing what might be authentic and what was made up later, especially during the Han times, when they started a Confucius cult.

Please also explain (at least in the paper) the different versions of the Analects and distinguish between the historical person Zhong Ni and the later made up sage "Kong Fuzi".

These are just a few ideas I had when I looked at your revised presentation.

There are also some pictures, who are not visible in my version of your ppt. It looks like you embedded them with Quicktime, but not everybody has it. So you may want to send me the pictures one by one and I can help you to input them in the presentation again the normal way (in Powerpoint using "Insert" "Graphic").Root (talk) 22:13, 19 February 2013 (CET)

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Hey, it's a start...Licia K 05:13, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Dear Licia, please paste your reading in turn notes here and upload your ppt. Please make sure to include the sources, also of images. See the section on images in our instructions. Thanks! Root 00:00, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

== I only did the presentation in the Classical Literature class. Since this article is also listed in the Traditional History class, (where the teacher did the presentation, but did not post any notes) I didn't upload the literature ppt. (I posted this in the History class section also, because, you can't have China history without Confucius! Someone had to post some sort of article about him, so I volunteered).Licia K 03:33, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Great pic! I think it could use a reference or two. User:Jimmerica 11:13, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Use the thumbnail adjustment on that picture. User:Alchemist1330

Comment 4

I though when the topic is a person it must be in first person? If not please ignore this. Also, the pictures kind of cut through your text. --Meh 06:40, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

== Didn't you notice? It says, at the start, that he is never supposed to have spoken of himself in first person. That is why, even though he is "speaking of himself" it is written in third person. That is also why it says, at the end, that he should maybe start to speak of himself in first person.Dekeo 20:32, 20 April 2012 (UTC)