
Ep. 314: Mengzi (Mencius) on Moral Psychology (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Internal Sense of Respect
Humainness gautsey is saying he's internal. It's not just the unruly appetites It's all the appetites including compassion and that actually seems correct to me I agree with menchas that if you see something terrible happen in front of you see a person falling in a well You have this alarm we have this compassion built into us Unless we're professional assassins that have rooted this out in some sort of systematic way But the rightness of you know the culturally The relative stuff I would say so how much respect exactly you have for your parents, it's very culturally specific.
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