Syncratism in China

A c graham is remarking on what's called syncratism, which is basically taking these four very different schools of thought within china and combining them. He says it's remarkable that for two thousand years or more, a quarter of the human population existed with these schools in a kind of balance or tension. From confucianism you get this emphasis on the family, what's called filial iety, very famously kinship bonds. And they are kind of below the level of critical reflection you're kind of not allowed to really do much reasoning at that level. But yenin yong are ordering and disordering principles, among many other things.