Episode 159: Confucius on Virtuous Conduct (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2017
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Continuing on the Analects without our guest. We cover passages on glibness, using names properly, filial conduct, remonstrance, love of learning, places where he sounds like Socrates, and more!
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End song: "Please Allow Me to Look at You Again," from The Edge of Heaven (2013) by Gary Lucas, as interviewed on Nakedly Examined Music ep. 7.
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| 0:16.4 | You're listening to Partially Examined Life, episode 159, part two on the |
| 0:20.4 | Analyx of Confucius. |
| 0:22.1 | Last time we gave some historical introduction and talked about virtue and |
| 0:27.2 | ritual propriety. |
| 0:28.2 | This time we'll get farther into the individual sayings in here. |
| 0:32.2 | Well, so that was so great to have in Suchen, but he has a three-week old |
| 0:37.5 | infant and was not able to stay on with us for the full period. |
| 0:41.2 | A few pieces of overview that we did not explicitly spell out so far in the |
| 0:46.2 | conversation, just that this is, it's 500, you know, what we would call now |
| 0:50.2 | aphorisms that were definitely put together quite a bit after Confucius's death. |
| 0:56.5 | Many of them are not even sayings attributed to him. |
| 0:59.7 | They're to his followers, to related people. |
| 1:03.5 | So it's not really clear how much of this he actually said, you know, very much |
| 1:08.1 | like the issues we had when we were doing the Jesus episode. |
| 1:11.7 | What did you guys think of the the aphoristic form of this? |
| 1:14.0 | Was this a make it especially difficult? |
| 1:17.0 | I'd be interesting to see the individual aphorisms reordered along different |
| 1:22.7 | themes. |
| 1:23.7 | I could be great to have this thing online in such a way where you could say, show |
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