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I hope I haven't mangled your arguments too badly.
http://approximatelyforever.com/blog/2015/10/01/wheres-the-love-for-confucius/
Commented Oct 1, 2015 on Making Confucianism Relevant to Americans at The Useless Tree
Making Confucianism Relevant to Americans
In my ongoing work to understand what Confucianism can mean in modern American contexts, I am returning to a paper I wrote for an academic conference a couple of years ago. My thinking on the topic has expanded since then, but I want to build off of this earlier work to produce a new, somewhat...
I'd like to respond on my own blog, Sam. Do I have your permission to cite from the paper?
Commented Sep 27, 2015 on Making Confucianism Relevant to Americans at The Useless Tree
Making Confucianism Relevant to Americans
In my ongoing work to understand what Confucianism can mean in modern American contexts, I am returning to a paper I wrote for an academic conference a couple of years ago. My thinking on the topic has expanded since then, but I want to build off of this earlier work to produce a new, somewhat...
Yes! This is the passage I always think of when discussion turns to whether a particular problem is a personal failure or a systemic problem. The answer is yes!
In 2,500 years, Confucius' system has "not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." (To appropriate Chesterton.)
Commented Jul 13, 2014 on On Conflict and Tranquility at Ox Herding
On Conflict and Tranquility
Recently someone asked how to stop the fighting in one of the world's many armed conflicts. I answered as best as I could but, of course, people have been asking how to end violence for millennia - certainly for as long as we've been killing one another. In last night's reading, I came across ...
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