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116b. Mastering the Universe vs. Transforming the Self

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The Fundamentals of Chinese Philosophy

Chinese philosophy had some interesting back and forth between different ways of thinking about things. Most believed stuff like for example you should actually love everyone so that's a little bit more Jesus like and also they really thought it was important to build big walls. Confucianism is a really really really powerful theme and it's central to what this book is talking about when we talk about the differences between Western and Eastern kinds of philosophies. I wanted to mention Maudsor because he's someone who was popular for a while and then died out as a philosophy but there are a bunch of things like that in the West as well where someSome famous philosophies died out stoicism has been revived recently but it

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