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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Confucius

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Confucius of the Analects

We don't actually have a lot from confucius himself in terms of writing ri it's just this one book rit nothing. And so i wa's amusing, as he's had such an influence over chinese history in china to day. Confucius gives us these enigmatic sentences like, i lift up one corner and you come back with the other three. That's what learning is all about. What is this? What is this? It what he does, he gives us, in some sense, sayings that we have to figure out. We have to think. He can be both a moral philosopher, a sage a model of ethical state building and so on.

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