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Warring-states periods are the height of creativity because open competition forces innovation; Jiang names Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Greek classical culture as examples.
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Warring-states periods are the height of creativity because open competition forces innovation; Jiang names Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Greek classical culture as examples.
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"Okay? So if there are four princes, okay, who are about to inherit the throne, there are four different factions that support them. That..."
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"Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated, and open -minded civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated,..."
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"...the warring states period there's 100 years when we had kong's confucius monsa laozi it's basically everyone okay all right and and if you..."
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"...Christianity, Jesus, right? Jesus tells you to be a good person. Confucius tells you to be a good person, right? But the lender class,..."
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"...the Chuntiu. Right? The spring autumn period. That's where we're getting Confucius from. Zhuanzi. Okay? All the great ideas came from this period of..."
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"...right? That's a practice here we use in China where, well, Confucius said this, so this must be true. And what René Descartes is..."
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",000 years Confucius is obviously Who is best remembered? from this era, but you also have Lao Tzu who is the founder of Taoism?..."
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"...officials. If you look at Confucian thought, there's a hierarchy in Confucius thought, right? At the very top are scholar officials. They're the most..."
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"...most of Chinese innovation and creativity came from, from that period. Confucius came from that period. Laozi, okay? A lot of major intellectual breakthroughs..."
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"...think of Jesus. Think of Mohammed. Think of Buddha. Think of Confucius, right? These are people who have these visions of God or of..."
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