Kongzi: "Hey, I like rituals."
Pope Generic III: "Hey, we like rituals too!"
Kongzi: "But we must reform the rituals in accordance with virtue."
Pope Generic III: "You lost me."
Pope Generic III: "Hey, we like rituals too!"
Kongzi: "But we must reform the rituals in accordance with virtue."
Pope Generic III: "You lost me."
January 31, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Kongzi: "Hey, I like rituals."
Pope Generic III: "Hey, we like rituals too!"
Kongzi: "But we must reform the rituals in accordance with virtue."
Pope Generic III: "You lost me."
Pope Generic III: "Hey, we like rituals too!"
Kongzi: "But we must reform the rituals in accordance with virtue."
Pope Generic III: "You lost me."
no no no we don't want to!
January 31, 2026 at 12:41 AM
no no no we don't want to!
The contrast reveals an important issue for early Greek thought, their inability to reconcile negation (or total absence) with presence.
January 30, 2026 at 12:18 PM
The contrast reveals an important issue for early Greek thought, their inability to reconcile negation (or total absence) with presence.
Contrast this with Buddhism: awareness is not only a precondition for ethical behavior but the living heart of enlightenment.
January 25, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Contrast this with Buddhism: awareness is not only a precondition for ethical behavior but the living heart of enlightenment.
In other words, there are minds that actively conceive the world merely in hypothetical maxims - which for Kant means the simple causal relationship of if x then y.
January 25, 2026 at 3:20 PM
In other words, there are minds that actively conceive the world merely in hypothetical maxims - which for Kant means the simple causal relationship of if x then y.
This might be another example in which Peirce is not actually as "pragmatist" as he could be (queue jokes about "pragmaticism").
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This might be another example in which Peirce is not actually as "pragmatist" as he could be (queue jokes about "pragmaticism").