Liao Shui 蓼水

... yeah, nope. But it does support scholars who point to the emotional capacities of the Confucian sage and the importance. Here it suggests an ability to encounter anyone and respond with care - supported again by an intimate awareness of empathy.

Does this mean Kongzi is secretely a disciple of Mozi?!

汎 is more commonly "drift" or "float," which suggests "in a non-intentional manner," or "as you come into contact with." This gives "indiscriminate" as a reasonable but imperfect single-term translation.

Sometimes Confucius is surprising. 子曰：「弟子入則孝，出則弟，謹而信，汎愛眾，而親仁。行有餘力，則以學文。」We begin with an expected emphasis on roles, filial piety, and careful speech. But then come to 汎愛眾 or "indiscriminately love the people," guided by 而親仁 "be intimately familiar with benevolence."

We had mass-produced commercial monoculture slop before consumer AI. It also burned the world. Just less rapidly.

Cloud Pavillion Administrator: "These spirit monitoring tools allow your apprentice cultivators to see the extent to which their writs are composed by the howling demons currently devouring their minds and corrupting the lands. We think this can be a learnig moment for your apprentices."

Kongzi: "Hey, I like rituals."
Pope Generic III: "Hey, we like rituals too!"
Kongzi: "But we must reform the rituals in accordance with virtue."
Pope Generic III: "You lost me."

子曰：「君子周而不比，小人比而不周。」
The Master Says: "A noble character is approachable and not partisan. A petty person is partisan and not approachable.

Legge translates 周 as "catholic", in the sense of "universal" or "for all," which actually works well here.

no no no we don't want to!

The contrast reveals an important issue for early Greek thought, their inability to reconcile negation (or total absence) with presence.

Except Brahman is not an “entity.” Brahman (conceptually at least) is undifferentiated spiritual reality, the unobservable basis of time and space.

While I deeply respect the Buddhist vision of enlightenment and liberation for all conscious beings, I also appreciate the fact they held concepts of miserably punishing and thematically appropriate hells.

New Isakai pitch: "I was a narcissist authoritarian oligarch before I was deposed and reborn in another world as a desecrated dungeon commode."

Aristotle: GUYS. I have the MOST DEFINITE explanation of SUBSTANCE. You won't believe this.

Contrast this with Buddhism: awareness is not only a precondition for ethical behavior but the living heart of enlightenment.

In other words, there are minds that actively conceive the world merely in hypothetical maxims - which for Kant means the simple causal relationship of if x then y.

One of the (several) things Kant fails to anticipate is the presence of a consciousness that actively assumes the univeral moral law is "treat others as mere means to personal ends."

It’s not that people never had crazy ideas before mass media. It’s that the cray ideas previously just wriggled around in personal notes and letters, languished in unread screeds, or burst forth but then evaporated in the din and haze of the local pub.

Thinking about leaving all Dao as Dao. Is that Daoist?

道可道，非常道。
Dào kě dào, fēicháng dào
Dao that can be Dao is not constant Dao.

A split-image picture of two different men dressed in blue jeans and flannel shirts. On the left is Richard Dean Anderson as MacGuyver. On the right is Will Forte as MacGruber.

What we grew up with versus how we turned out.

I think "luxuriant swamp" really captures the kind of nonsense you can expend to find on this account.

What's in a name? A luxuriant swamp by any other name would smell as sickly sweet.

Attempts at being even a semi-serious account have clearly failed.

This might be another example in which Peirce is not actually as "pragmatist" as he could be (queue jokes about "pragmaticism").

"Following Charles Sanders Peirce, philosophers call these concrete instances of words, phrases, or sentences tokens."

What is "concrete"? If we take experience seriously, all experience is felt, and all experience is temporary. Everything is "concrete" and nothing is "concrete" at the same time.

So starts the winter ... Lao Shu asks: ‘Head off for hotpot or head into the hills?’ The Other China 立冬 火鍋或曠野 In this chapter of The Other China, we join the artist Lao Shu to mark 11 November, a relatively new Chinese festive day, and bid farewell to the northern autumn

chinaheritage.net/journal/so-s...

Pitch for a new movie: what if robots but also philosophers?

Transformers: Rise of the Deconstructicons

"Autobots, your flimsy morality is no match for post-modern analysis!"

"In the ancient world, there were often a number of different religious centers in one kingdom, each with its own unique rituals, mythology, and patron deity. Each could expect some support from the local rulers, and each would in turn lend its support to the leadership."

To be fair, MacIntyre's work possesses some virtues. Brevity is not one of them.