my new model of china is that the nation was driven mad by its suffering in the twentieth century and has nowhere near recovered just a complete meltdown of cultural and civic capital
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tbd i think they have their own issues sinofuturism would be cool if it werent totalitarian
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Praying hard for the return of Confucianism
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Am a big fan but it's not really a political philosophy afaik
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"and no one notices"pic.twitter.com/neZmJB0UEZ
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The rationalists on this site would be team Mozi instead of Mengzi, I think, or a hybrid Mozi / Hanfeizi, splashing Laozi if they're the postrat type. Mozi was, actually, the best, the most technical but least practical. (like rationalists) I like Mengzi though.
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Deeply enjoy Mengzi's digs on the old crowds: History does indeed rhymepic.twitter.com/vt1mnkRRx6
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Yeah, during the "warring philosophers" period (I just made that term up, though it kind of overlaps with "warring states"), you can see things like deontology/virtue ethics/utilitarianism/etc. all having been created at some point. It's just that most of them ended up dead
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is that the hundred schools period? vaguely recall this happening
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Yeah
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The death of the hundred schools under Qin seems like a decisive break with the trajectory of European civilization to me. If China had kept them, and like the west, constantly re-developed them, I wonder what would have happened.
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