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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Is Confucius Really Dead? Interview of sociologist — Wu Haiyun interviews sociologist Zhao Dingxin

Sociologist Zhao Dingxin, author of “The Confucian-Legalist State,” on the demise of Confucianism, the resilience of Legalism, and the structural sources of individual power....
Zhao Dingxin looks at the broad sweep of history. Although he is neither a Marxist nor a Hegelian, his viewpoint is dialectical, which is not surprising since Chines thought is dialectical rather than categorical, while most Western thought is categorical. So he has some interesting takes.

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Is Confucius Really Dead?
Wu Haiyun interviews sociologist Zhao Dingxin

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