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Chinese 110A Can Be Awesome
Mengzi 1A.1. Yes, indeed. No, this is not a geeky plug. It really is cool. Perhaps under the influence of my Chinese name, I have always thought as Mengzi did on this matter. Though as a pre-Christian philosopher h… -
Punishments and Government
And now my random thing about crime and punishment, lowercase, because I feel like it, and probably in connexion to ASUC election time. There's a weak correlation in there somewhere. Corrupt politicians have to be exile… -
Emmanuel and Chinese Philosophers
There was nothing so special about Aristoteles and Aristocles Platon that made them more suitable for Christian philosophy than Kongzi, Mengzi, Xunzi and Zhuangzi. Each has made statements that in their original intent a… -
三字經 Commentary 1.5
養不教，父之過To feed without teaching, is the father’s fault.It is neglectful, even transgressive, the text says, for a father tofeed his children without teaching them, to provide for their materialneeds without attendin… -
Classical Education
People from a Western background have sometimes used Classical Christian education. I wonder if anyone has attempted an East Asian counterpart drawing from the Chinese intellectual and cultural tradition: I would be inte… -
公義、人格缺少: "The Law of Moral Entropy"
[Note: This is the second post in a possible series. Click here for part one.]Tim Smith shares his thoughts about secularist transmission ofmorality. It is often said that secularists often have a stronger moralcode t… -
儒學
(taken from my Facebook note on the topic)Confucianism without Christ is powerless to promote a virtuous society. How so?Obviously, there have been virtuous people in our past, includingConfucius and Mencius themselve… -
三字經 Commentary 1.2
苟不教 性乃遷If children are, out of negligence, not properly taught, they may fall prey to the evils of one “[?whose] house sinks down to death And [whose] tracks lead to the dead; None who go to her return again, Nor d… -
三字經 Commentary 1.1
How to teach Chinese with the Three-Character Classic withoutinstilling an ideology contrary to the truth, and still plant a Chinesesensibility and make use of the grains of truth in the text? … more »
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