Episode 159: Confucius on Virtuous Conduct (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On the Analects, compiled after 479 BCE. How should we act? What's the relation between ethics and politics? Can a bunch of aphorisms written in the distant past for an unapologetically hierarchical culture emphasizing traditional rituals actually give us relevant, welcome advice on these matters? Are we even in a position to determine the meaning of these sayings? With guest Tzuchien Tho.
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| 0:00.0 | The partial exam in life depends on your support. |
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| 0:07.5 | slash support. |
| 0:16.5 | You're listening to The Partially Exam in Life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point |
| 0:20.4 | said I'm doing philosophy for living with them thought better of it. |
| 0:23.2 | Our question for episode 159 is something like, |
| 0:26.8 | what can the perspective of ancient China add to our understanding of ethics? |
| 0:30.6 | And we read the analytics of Confucius compiled somewhere between 475 and 221 BC, |
| 0:36.4 | shortly after Confucius is death in 479 BC. |
| 0:39.6 | To get the reading and more information, please check out www.parsleyxamonlife.com |
| 0:43.8 | My name is Mark Linton-Mire, sleeping during the daytime in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:48.1 | This is Seth Pascon in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:50.6 | This is Wes Allone trying not to be glib in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:55.7 | This is Tuchanto trying to understand how to enter into discussion with you guys in Berlin, Germany. |
| 1:04.2 | As long as you stand beside your word, I think. |
| 1:07.7 | I'll try. |
| 1:08.7 | Do you're at most? |
| 1:10.7 | Or should we just dispense with the translations? |
| 1:12.9 | Some of these translations just for all these hard concepts like doing you're at most, |
| 1:17.9 | they just use the ancient Chinese words and just let you figure it out. |
| 1:22.5 | So we'll just start with that. |
| 1:24.0 | Let's just completely alienate the listeners. |
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