Neo-Confucianism holds that one cannot sit passively and wait for enlightenment, as the Buddhists do, but must actively “seek truth through facts” in order to understand the relationships of form (li) and substance (qi) as they govern the constitution of the totality of the universe or “_________________” (taiji).
a. Supreme Being
b. Supreme Understanding
c. Supreme Command
d. Supreme Ultimate
d. Supreme Ultimate
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Pat Buchanan's campaign for the Republican nomination in 1992
A) alienated many moderate Republican voters. B) was easily defeated by George H.W. Bush. C) allowed more liberal Republican voters to have a voice in the D) was derailed before it even started.
In contrast to Britain in the eighteenth century, European countries on the Continent __________.
A) were less efficient in planning the transition to factory production B) had a long tradition of government intervention in public affairs C) engaged in wasteful competition in the early stage of industrialization D) failed to resolve transportation bottlenecks as they industrialized
What are the modern-day versions of the early twentieth-century trusts?
a) banks b) railroads c) courts d) universities
The French philosophes mostly included people from
A) the nobility and the middle class. B) the lower class and the lower middle class. C) aristocracy and nobility. D) urban artisans and craftsmen. E) the universities.