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Episode #008 ... Confucianism
Philosophize This!
Confucius's Five Relationships
The main point of all o this was to make sense of the ambiguity of individual morality, a subject that was completely foreign to people of his time period. But even if you memorized all five of his constant relationships and how to act within each one of them, following all this only made you loyal. And remember, loyalty was only number one of the four things you need to be a superior man. You still needed filial piety, respecting your elders, ancestor worship and basically understanding your role as a subject in all the various relationships you might find yourself in were you're viewed as an inferior. To confucius, the most important thing is that you do these rituals with sincerity or authenticity
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