I can't agree more.Taoist Dao and Confucian Dao can be two opposite schools. The Taoist Dao is closer to western humanity and democracy. Confuciusm does a better job in helping statesmen to govern the nation, which would certainly be against the development of inidvidual freedom, a theme of the Taosit Dao.
-goingconern(GoingConcern);
2010-2-16{288}(#5886212@0)
With all due respect, I have to say, Mr Yu did not say anything too valuable here.
-goingconern(GoingConcern);
2010-2-16(#5886221@0)
Actually, the Tao in Taoism and the Li in Neo-Confucianism are essentially one and the same. Confucius also spoke of Tao, and I believe he meant the same thing.
-lifesucks(满街圣人);
2010-2-16(#5886370@0)
The great synthesis of Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist philosophies into the Neo-Confucian concept of Li was a result of someone being 底气不足. There! You got your thesis!
-lifesucks(满街圣人);
2010-2-16(#5886462@0)
There is no goodness or badness in things. The problem is, people mock what they fail to understand or appreciate, and the arguments they use reveal more about themselves than the things they mock.
-lifesucks(满街圣人);
2010-2-16(#5886514@0)
Mr.Yu is mainly a scholar on Chinese philosophy and society, not so much on literature. He wrote extensively on Zhu Xi, Neo-Confucianism, and intellectual thoughts of Ming and Qing dynasties,particularly on the intellectual trends and social transformations in late Qing and early Republic.
-lifesucks(满街圣人);
2010-2-14{99}(#5883355@0)
What romantic view. I really enjoyed your thoughts.I belive ultimately it is history that crystalize the beauty in the amber of time until we read about it today. The pains, mess and moral degredation occurred thousands of years ago did exist I believe but they subsided with time. What we see now around us may subside with time too perhaps, given a long time period. The beautiful legend of our time shall remain, too.
-goingconern(GoingConcern);
2010-2-16{372}(#5886655@0)
well said. 如今的社会就是, 好事不出门,坏事传千里, 新闻报道到处都是追狗咬人的主. 想要看好的一面需要用自己的眼光细细的看过去.
-buma(。。。。);
2010-2-16(#5886705@0)
This is perhaps another issue :-). Bad news always have more readership. Purely a profit concern I feel. But you are right, we should not take the world described by newspaper to be the real world.
-goingconern(GoingConcern);
2010-2-16(#5886718@0)
If politicians are one notch beneath child molester, an intellectual who BLUFFS his way into fame can be the next in rank.
-goingconern(GoingConcern);
2010-2-16(#5886742@0)
You just went overboard there. Disagreement is welcome if you can provide solid counter-arguments. Otherwise, to say that someone bluffed his way into fame is in itself a malicious blasphemy. Consider yourself a honourable person please.
-lifesucks(满街圣人);
2010-2-16(#5886804@0)
I disagree, but I defend your right to speak.
-goingconern(GoingConcern);
2010-2-16(#5886920@0)