Confucius did this until he was 30 years old, but he always wanted to do more. He didn’t like the way rulers treated theirsubjects. He wanted to find a way to help people who were less fortunate than he was. Later, he founded the philosophy “Confucianism”. ...
Confucius did not write down the principles of his philosophy. The Analects, a work written by some of his followers, is considered the most faithful source of information about his life and teachings. The teachings of Confucius were practical and moral, rather than religious....
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Cross-posted on the Indian Philosophy Blog. As humans our potential cognitive development is not unlimited but may be greater than we think. This could be called a “developmental” view, which is explicit in the Buddhist idea of “path” (magga/mārga) and in recent edited collections in p...
(By the way, Yong Huang, it seems to me that in the conversations as reported in the Analects and the Mencius, Confucius and Mencius generally make pretty strong assumptions of that sort about their interlocutors, so that even if I set aside my inclination to deny that they were primarily...
all the time "what is my philosophy of mathematics" and there is a lot personal reasons for why I decided to do what Thurston is doing. But for example, I know it sounds silly, but I love the symbol "Γ" being a discrete group for a Lie group G, when I saw the Γ, the word ...
One reason Buddhism freely spread was that it was more philosophy than religion, and it rarely imposed itself on indigenous religions; instead it often complimented them and even evolved culturally to suit the region. When Boddhidharma travelled from Indian to China with...
They were imprisoned by a tradition stretching back to Confucius and beyond. Only a few broke these ancient taboos, mostly the Communists and some scattered left-wingers in the weak middle ground. And it was the modernised Chinese in the Communist Party who chose to raise up Mao as the ...
the poor and the wealthy as equals.Although he became very famous among China's lower classes,the rulers of China never accepted his teachings.Eventually,his philosophy of self-discipline helped China unite under one ruler and finally find peace.Today,Confucius is celebrated all over...
< p > Zhang Lei's investment philosophy originates from China. He has three philosophies, namely, "guarding the right and using the strange", "weak water three thousand, but taking a scoop" and "peach and Lee do not speak, and come down to the next." ...