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Ep. 17 – Learning the Human Game
Alan Watts Being in the Way
Are the Thieves the Virtue?
Confucious idea was that this kind of human nature is very trustworthy. You can rely more on people's natural passions than you can on their virtues. For example, if I want to wage a war, and I want to do it in order to capture somebody else's wealth and his women, I'm going to be very careful in waging that war that I don't destroy his wealth and hisWomen. And Confucious, 600 years BC, wagged his finger at that and said, that's not humane. It's too virtuous,. He said the goody good is, are the thieves the virtue. So we suffer, you see, in our culture from righteousness.
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