Ralph Ammer

Xunzi vs. Mengzi – Are People (No) Good?

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About 2300 years ago, the great Chinese thinker Xunzi 荀⼦ wrote: “Human nature is bad“.

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Confucius – Why we need rituals

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Confucius 孔夫子, one of the great Chinese thinkers, was known to always carefully straighten his mat before he sat down.

Why?

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The Book of Change

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Navigate life with this ancient Chinese book.

The Yijing 易經 or “Book of Change” is one of China’s oldest books and a corner stone of Chinese philosophy. It tells us how to understand change, how to find out what kind of change we are in right now, and how to deal with it.

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