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Ep. 314: Mengzi (Mencius) on Moral Psychology (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Importance of Relationships

The emphasis on the primary relationships, the fundamental relationships, I found what it helped me to do was as a kind of mental reset. For me, the power of Confucius in thinking is that moral life is embedded and tangled, inseparable from fundamental relationships because we are fundamentally relational. So, Menchus knows that relationships between children and parents are very difficult. He knows that they're the most difficult things,. like the Greek Trigidians knew, you know?

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