the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the lightest. 2. 'Therefore to gain the peasantry is the way to become sovereign; to gain the sovereign is the way to become a prince of a State; to gain the prince of a State is the way to become a great officer...
My Coaching Philosophy Webster tells us that, among other things, a philosopher is a person who meets all events, whether favorable or unfavorable, with calmness and composure. Furthermore, among the comments he makes in defining philosophy are such statement as : originally, love of wisdom or ...
In this paper we motivate and develop a new approach to predicates of personal taste within the framework of semantic relativism. Our primary goal is to ex
bitterandhot,alwaysfeelthehardshipsoflife,especially thecomplicatedinterpersonalrelationship,soIremain perplexeddespitemuchthought.Lifeistooshorttodoakind ofperson,onlytohimself,othersandsociety?Whatisthetrue natureofhumanbeing?Isitreallydifficulttorecognizeit? Inthelongandarduousexplorationoftransientlifejourney, bych...
While philosophy happens in some of the same patterns across the world and throughout history, no philosophical tradition is exactly the same, and in each we find unique insights, questions, and viewpoints on the world. Just as it would be fruitless to try to understand the nature of human ...
Moreover, to concentrate human energies on the achievement of social goals, Mo Zi believed that the unity of thought and action was necessary, with the people obeying their leaders and the leaders following the will of the Heaven. ; Mo Zi sought to base his creed on reason. Some of his ...
•BasedonthedevelopmentofConfucianisminhistory,thefollowingconceptsfromtheAnalectscanbeidentifiedwithconfidenceascentraltoConfucius’sthoughtandcontributiontoChinesephilosophy:ren(humaneness,benevolence);junzi(exemplaryperson,gentleman);yi(righteousness,appropriatebehaviorforthesituation),xiao(filiality),andli(ritual...
intheAnalectsofConfucius.Itisasystemofmoral,social,political,andreligiousthoughtthat hashadtremendousinfluenceonChinesehistory,thought,andculturedowntothe21stcentury. SomeWesternershaveconsideredittohavebeenthe"statereligion"ofimperialChina. ThemajorConfucianconceptsincluderén(humanityor humaneness),zhèngmíng(rectific...
Metaphysics: Leisure as a State of Mind Leisure as a state of mind reflects the modern view that leisure is a subjective, psychological state rather than the actual activity that a person is doing or her or his life circumstances. If leisure is a state of mind, when a person perceives an...
(4): it ascribes contradictory beliefs to one person. The SP is interpreted with respect to a local judge, Mordecai, and there is a contrary predicate in main predicate position (here,depressing), also interpreted with respect to the same judge. The noun here is interpretedde dicto, with ...