... I can't do that. There is no such thing as _the_ observer or _the_ participant. All rituals have multiple participants at the least. (Even those rituals...
... My objection is to the repeated claim that symbols are the "substance", "heart", or "core" of rituals. Just as symbols are not always the point of studying...
In a message dated 2/23/2008 4:25:05 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, diahman@... writes: Claiming that symbols are the building blocks of...
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... That they aren't always to the point doesn't imply at all that they aren't there or that they don't matter. That breathing is required in order to speak...
Jeff, You're responding to comments that weren't written to you, so some of your responses are nonsensical. I'm assuming that you responded because you believe...
Martha Nussbaum in _Love's Knowledge_ (and elsewhere?) discusses the Stoic idea of katalepsis as a way of "grasping" or seizing hold of knowledge. Where...
(Lunyu VI.22 -- D.C. Lau translation) Fan Ch'ih asked about wisdom. The Master said, "To work for the things the common people have a right to and to keep...
... Unfortunately, that's not what you said. You _specifically_ tried to present this viewpoint as being somehow authoritative. In fact your entire argument...
... I have no problem with heuristic devices, but even with the distinction you've created I see no difference, even heuristically, between ritual ("a codified...
... Where did I "specifically" present this viewpoint (actually I brought up two view points) authoritative? You're not only reading too far into it, you're...
http://www2.china-sd.com/News/2008-2/27_1251.html *Kids from Nanchang, Jiangxi province, dress up in traditional costumes during an event of reciting works of...
This couplet by Alexander Pope has a Confucian sensibility: "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." -Alexander Pope...
After a couple of bouts of extended illness I finally managed to finish *Ritual -- Perspectives and Dimensions* by Catherine Bell. Thanks to whoever...
Jefferson, you write: <snip> ... <snip> Perhaps, there is something in what you say. The main point of distinction, however, seems to be that "fa" or 'law' is...
... So, punishments for sacrilege, or blasphemy, or lese majeste -- these would be _li_ or _fa_ ??? Laws that only the emperor could wear clothing with dragon...
From the Yijing (as translated by Richard Wilhelm). Notice the Hexagram pair 55 and 21. They are a pair in the sense that the trigrams are reversed. Trigram Li...
It's available as a podcast from June: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/r4choice/ From Radio 4 Read the lectures, download the latest as a podcast, listen...
by Xujun Eberlein Last October, when the CCP held its 17th congress, CNN reported the event with the headline "China rules out copying Western democracy." My...
In a land of one billion people, some people will always go on an inner journey and rediscover traditional values in a creative way. In other words, there will...
Todd, Thanks for the Daniel A. Bell references. As it turns out, I'm currently reading "China's New Confucianism" as well as "Confucian Political Ethics"...
The Master said, "The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue." (Legge) Firm is Legge's translation of Gang, Lau has 'unbending...
... Interesting this should pop up now. I've been looking at the fall of Imperial China in the 19th and early 20th century. Last night I finally got a handle...
... Literally "stammering" Occurs also in Lunyu 4:24 http://www.afpc.asso.fr/wengu/wg/wengu.php?no=90&lang=fr&l=Lunyu [D.C. Lau] The Master said, 'The...
The Master said, "Superior men, and yet not always virtuous (ren), there have been, alas! But there never has been a mean man, and, at the same time,...
And the character for zhi, the will, shows the heart with above it a scholar-warrior shi ¤h, in other words a brave, determined heart. Thomas "The superior...
It's been a long time, but I went on vacation and brought along "Epictetus, A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life" by A.A. Long isbn 0-19-926885-1 It's an...
