Ep. 314: Mengzi (Mencius) on Moral Psychology (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Paradox of Filiality
It comes from a reverence for the fact that you are not your own origin. And it's voiced in Paradise Lost, when Satan becomes the paradise, when he deals with you. It took a while for Confucius to become central to East Asian cultures. At the time of Menchus, clearly people thought he was ridiculous.
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