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PREMIUM-Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part Three)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Argument Against Confucianism

I had always associated Confucianism with a meritocracy, you know, with the testing that they do have long done in China. But whether the Moists actually thought the Confucians of their time had this as part of their beliefs, I don't know. Predestination for the Calvinists, your station is determined, but you want to demonstrate that. So it actually makes you that belief in fate in predestination makes you try harder.

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