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Imagine scrolling through TikTok late at night, consuming endless personalised content. Each video perfectly matched to your interests, each frame designed to keep you engaged. Now consider Plato’s allegory of the Cave, where prisoners are chained in a dark...
Have you ever had a problem with bullies or a bully? I tend to associate bullies with school, because that was where I first met them, but some people meet them in the army, at work, in a volunteer organisation or even at home. In fact, you can meet them everywhere...
The History of the Philosophy of Moral Action in Ancient China People often say that the great Eastern Texts; by which they generally mean, the Analects of Confucius, The Tao Te Ching and Buddhist texts, are not really philosophy but something else, such as religion...
Chinese Philosophers Mencius on Human Nature In part one I introduced you to Mencius who was a second generation Confucian and basically he says: “Human Nature is good and the reason we become bad is that we forget our own heart.” But like all ancient Chinese texts...
Xun Zi Xun Zi – Human Nature is Evil Xun Zi said there is something wrong with Mencius’s view that Human Nature is good. He thought that view was too idealistic and didn’t believe that was really the case. Human Nature, he said, is not really good. His view was more...
