Tag: Chinese Philosophy
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Mengzi: The Second Sage and the Goodness of Human Nature
Slide 1: Who Was Mengzi? Alright, let’s start with something that might surprise you: the person we’re about to study believed something almost nobody in power wanted to hear. And he spent his entire life traveling from kingdom to kingdom, trying to convince rulers of it anyway. His name was Mengzi – you might know…
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The Philosophy of Confucius: Foundations of Harmony and Virtue
Slides 1-2 (Who Was Confucius + Historical Context) Intro we are stepping back over 2,500 years to a time of profound turbulence. Imagine a China fractured into warring states, where the old social contracts had dissolved, and violence was the primary language of politics. It was the Spring and Autumn period—a time when the very…