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Part three. Practices

So as we explored in part 1 and part 2, Confucius never got the position in office that he wanted.

And as we all know, if you can't do, teach. So we had about...

And if you can't teach, teach PE.

So Confucius had about 20 or 30 students at time. He had an open door policy, as we discussed.

And very much these teachings would be like Q&As with these students.

And those are the analects. And that's what we're reading for part two and part three, which is this week's installment.

We're going to look at some of the analects in practice this time round.

The point of the analects is to say that we need a hierarchical structure and on an individual level,

we should try and cultivate ren.

Junzi is the Chinese for someone that cultivates virtue, i. Ren, that in a goodness

that they're born with and makes themselves the best person they can be. Okay, brilliant. Ollie's

thinking, sounds really Aristotlian. I can really get my hands on this theory and craft it into

my own. But we're going to discuss some of the nitty-gritty this time on that.

So what do I actually do as a Confucian?

Something we have mentioned really is a lot of the philosophy which we've been doing on

the show, particularly over the last few months, has been more meta-ethics and like moral

theory rather than normative ethics, like what I should do out there in the world.

And this text is full of like, more for three years.

Don't grash you your old man.

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