If Confucius is so profound and important why are all the chnks left out of the history of philosophy?
because you touch yourself at night
>>8025327
Confucius wasn't profound. He formulated a way of life that kept the going social order intact and so has persisted.
>>8025327
Who said that Confucius is profound? I have never heard this.
>>8025332
Way better than western enlightenment thinkers, who devised a way of life that quickly descended to murderand heathenish degeneracy within the course of a few generations.
>>8026001
chinese themselves didn't think so...
>I can't bear to think of it.
>I have only just realized that I have been living all these years in a place where for four thousand years they have been eating human flesh. My brother had just taken over the charge of the house when our sister died, and he may well have used her flesh in our rice and dishes, making us eat it unwittingly.
>It is possible that I ate several pieces of my sister's flesh unwittingly, and now it is my turn, . . .
>How can a man like myself, after four thousand years of man-caring history—even though I knew nothing about it at first—ever hope to face real men?
>XIII
>Perhaps there are still children who have not eaten men? Save the children. . . .
I had a dream last night where I had to explain the importance of Confucius in front of a bunch of Chinese people
>>8025327
Confucius was not a philosopher. His writings do not contain arguments.
>>8025327
Lao Zi is better desu
>>8025327
Chuang Tzu spends a lot of time tearing apart Confucius.