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Confucius was a 6 foot Gigachad!! 🤯 6 * 30 = 180
He was of noble birth, though, a palace adviser wasn't he? Wealthy men and the most beautiful women in his lineage, going back forever. Likely, he wasn't the size of the common laborers, or even the common soldiers. 🤔
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European philosophers simply led to better scientific progress and inventions than Confucius as a philosopher
That is why Europe was able to take over Asia with guns and force them to enter into trade
Confucius philosophy was based on determining truth by social validation where as European philosophy was about determining truth even when it goes against the social grain
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Yeah we wuz Briish n sheeit I get it.
The we-wuz-whitey discourse is annoying because, while true is terms of sheer magnitude, it began in the Elizabethan era - the Protestant Wind storm in 1588. It doesn't tell us much about the comparative value of other cultural values, of Confucian values, penned in the 8th Century BC.
Also I suspect that you haven't read Confucius if you believe he taught people to abide by consensus.
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I am not fluent in Korean but I have studied the language for many years
Korean is considered by many people to be the most Confucius country in the world
Embedded in the language structure is social hierarchy in every verb
Whether or not Confucius originally intended his philosophy to be that way
Somewhere throughout time it became philosophy of ranking people into social hierarchies
And determining truth and morality based on the social hierarchy
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If someone is ranked with a higher social rank than you the standard Korean way of thinking is to believe that the claims they make are true and that the normally right thing is to obey what they say
This is self contradictory because two people of higher rank than you can say contradictory things but they do not tend to think about this kind of thing much
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There was a history of promotion based on testing people not by math or science but by their knowledge of the Confucian tests in a bureaucracy exam in China
This kind of culture spread over to South Korea
There is a creativity deficit in South Korea in spite of high test scores
Because they were trying to memorize old ideas instead of trying to evaluate if ideas were true based on the scientific method