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The Confucian Gentleman

The Art of Manliness

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Learning Different Roles Is What Filial Conduct Is About

An important part of inttutionism is the role of ritual. And it seems like confucius is a stickler for ritual, which is interesting because, you know, we've ben talking about sociality. Its very flexible, and yet they know ats the right thing to do in the situation. But i mean, somekinds can come off as very rigid about ritual. What's going on there? E, it, iis very interesting,. becaucause it's true that he, e, he, he argues for for te centrality of ritual in life. He means doing the ritual exactly as it's intended. To use a stage analogy to read your words

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