The Puritan Work Ethic is a sign value; the perceived difficulty or effort expended in accomplishment of a task, not the outcome of that task, is the measure of the worth or value of the task. Accordingly, something that demands a long period of extreme effort and determination will be worth more than whatever comes [...]
Chinese Philosophy - The Short List
In no particular order, here are the men I consider to be the giants of Chinese Philosophy:
Lin Yutang
Po Chuyi
Sun Tung’po
T’u Ch’ishui
Yuan Chunglang
Li Chowu
Chang Ch’ao
Li Liweng
Yuan Tsets’ai
Chin Shengt’an
Good luck trying to find anything in print by then here in the English-speaking world. Chinese philosophy has no place in such a frantic, hard-edged culture. We disdain their [...]
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