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  • Confucius is one of history's most influential men - a sage, philosopher and teacher - who, with Socrates and Buddha, lived at an extraordinary time in the evolution of mankind's civilization. This stunning drama-documentary explores the life and times of Confucius and demystifies his ideas.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 294

  • @pairotelee
    @pairotelee 3 роки тому +61

    As a China-born, Thai national of 76, I always honor & respect Confucius' teachings & guidelines in conducting my own Life.
    The best guideline is " Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall " ......
    As ' A Good Human Being ' from my parents with straight-forwardness & honesty, I have gone through over 30 professional jobs in the span of 50 years & always ' Rise & Rise again & again, every time I fall '......
    I adapted this Strength from the great philosopher, Confucius ...... MANY THANKS! from ' The City of Angel ', Bangkok.

    • @villageid10t53
      @villageid10t53 2 роки тому +7

      Improvise, adapt, overcome.

    • @douglasthompson8927
      @douglasthompson8927 Рік тому

      @@villageid10t53 war is evil

    • @0animalproductworld558
      @0animalproductworld558 Рік тому +2

      Even the Indians in China like China and Chinese. They even compare the pros in China and how India isn't comparable. Chinese are very nice, innocent, peaceful, and pretty harmless that's why

    • @JakerTheSnake
      @JakerTheSnake 6 місяців тому

      Chinese people in most cases have ostensibly poor etiquette, but it makes sense, their entire philosophy is self serving. Establishment of egotism seems deeply rooted in the philosophical principles.

    • @darranwilkins4648
      @darranwilkins4648 3 місяці тому

      free hong kong and taiwan will alsways bee

  • @aguyinavan6087
    @aguyinavan6087 28 днів тому +1

    There is much, I, as an American, have to learn from Confucius, and other Chinese wisdom and culture. Thank you for presenting that wisdom in such a beautiful representation.

  • @realtyranny3310
    @realtyranny3310 2 роки тому +7

    Confucius says, patience is a must. If you miss the bus, wait for the next bus!

  • @thenomad9230
    @thenomad9230 3 роки тому +187

    I'd like to see more non-western documentaries.

  • @angela031
    @angela031 3 роки тому +20

    Confucious teaching has moulded the Chinese thinking for thousands of years. Hard working, respect for elders, meritocracy, selflessness are all to some degree in the blood of every Chinese even if they do not attend Chinese school. I am in Malaysia. No one here attended specifically "confucian" school. Many learned Chinese values from parents and elders in the family or our peers. No US suppression could kill or eliminate such thinkings and practices. Everyone who attend Chinese school knows the saying as attributed to Confucious : "in a group of three, there will always be one who could teach me something". Or "don't do to others what you don't want others do to you" although some people will attribute some of these to Christian or other religious teachings. It really matters not as they all teach good virtues.

    • @skyton658
      @skyton658 3 роки тому +6

      Sounded like a quote taken from the CCP red booklet. Exaggerated the good, hide the bad.

    • @siddude
      @siddude 3 роки тому +5

      LOL. Mao wanted to eradicate Confucianism in China. Mao believed Confucianism is what made China backward with silly superstitions. Don't bring the US into it.

    • @capricorn839
      @capricorn839 3 роки тому +6

      @@siddude And Mao is responsible for the death of millions of innocent people when he launched the failed Great Leap Forward which became the Great Leap Backward

    • @jacksonquinn8744
      @jacksonquinn8744 3 роки тому +2

      That's a good little parrot 🦜

    • @katejudson8907
      @katejudson8907 Рік тому +1

      I understood that Taoism, and to some degree also Buddhism also greatly influenced Chinese philosophy of life, but that Confucianism influenced more greatly the governance systems. In this sense it's a bit redundant to claim one thinker as the sole root of spiritual and political shaping of China.

  • @jharchery4117
    @jharchery4117 Рік тому +5

    It is interesting that so much value is placed upon being a descendent of Confucius which is exactly the opposite of his teaching that one's actions, not bloodline is what is important.

  • @WisdomTree2024
    @WisdomTree2024 Рік тому +3

    Such a priceless legacy information, TYSM

  • @0animalproductworld558
    @0animalproductworld558 Рік тому +4

    His teachings teach people to be humans and not monsters

  • @paulwallis7586
    @paulwallis7586 2 роки тому +8

    Susma Chien was one of the most dedicated writers in Chinese history, with a strong sense of propriety and duty, even under very harsh personal conditions. I would say he sourced more than he "imagined".

  • @samsonmaina8689
    @samsonmaina8689 3 роки тому +6

    I have learnt about good society morals that are more important virtues ,this is what the present world needs being humans

  • @thacrypt223
    @thacrypt223 3 роки тому +34

    Found your channel yesterday, and I must say it is the best discovery of the year. Watched one video about the Minoans late last night thinking to myself after I finished it, "I will go back and comment on it tomorrow", because it was mind blowingly amazing, and then I find this in my feed today. :D
    I love your work. Keep it up! You have a new subscriber!❤❤

  • @popsdaddy2715
    @popsdaddy2715 Рік тому +2

    Confucius say... Only watch once, twice is like a marvel movie

  • @jacklyv
    @jacklyv 2 роки тому +4

    This is the BEST history channel 👏 🙌

  • @dennisnicholson952
    @dennisnicholson952 2 роки тому +8

    The one problem, that I have with these documentaries, is the fact that the captions for the translations are so small that I miss a lot of what is said. Not all of us have a large-screen computer so that the words can easily be seen. Why can't the speaker's words be dubbed in the language of the viewer instead of expecting one to struggle to read tiny letters?

  • @maki9396
    @maki9396 2 роки тому +5

    Very informative. Thank you!

  • @johngibbs799
    @johngibbs799 Рік тому +3

    Confucius' parents is not problematic. It is very beautiful.
    😇

  • @richardlee1716
    @richardlee1716 3 роки тому +13

    Amazingly done. It felt really authentic with those interviews and the cinematography was an excellent touch.

  • @jonerlandson1956
    @jonerlandson1956 2 роки тому +4

    i don't know who invented this documentary but it was pretty interesting...

  • @thecraftyannapolitan5453
    @thecraftyannapolitan5453 3 роки тому +7

    Amazing documentary. Liked and subscribed.👍🏽👍🏽

  • @jamesbeebe3082
    @jamesbeebe3082 3 роки тому +10

    We need to follow the same teaching as Confucius. All nations are related to the creator we all believe in the same god just different name and customs. Empathy,compassion and
    Love in our hearts for all people on earth

    • @chilldragon4752
      @chilldragon4752 3 роки тому +1

      Not exactly true, some nations and customs don't believe in a god at all (buddhism, taoism) or different types of gods like Shinto. But you said it beautifully, empathy, compassion, and love. If everyone practiced these the world would be so much better

    • @daniel3231995
      @daniel3231995 3 роки тому +1

      how bout no. we live in a beautiful anti china-centric world finally realizing the ills of fake ccp products. what you advocate is a liberal based order of idealistic communism of which there is none.

    • @jacksonquinn8744
      @jacksonquinn8744 3 роки тому

      Any kind of ideology that stems from China I don't trust. You'd be wise not to either

    • @michigandersea3485
      @michigandersea3485 2 роки тому

      Confucius taught that love and care for family and service of honorable authority should come first. Then comes love for all others. This contrasts with the teachings of Mozi who argued that we should love and care for all humanity equally. Mozi's teachings are closer to today's "one human family" Western humanism. It is telling whose teachings are more successful today. Confucian teachings are more in accord with human nature.

  • @JoseAvalos-tv1db
    @JoseAvalos-tv1db 2 роки тому +4

    best documentary i have seen. much respect

  • @jenna2431
    @jenna2431 3 роки тому +19

    The world today could learn a lot from Confucius.

    • @meocean5499
      @meocean5499 2 роки тому

      It will 👀 we don’t know yet how, nor if it will be morally ok, but ohhh… it will.

    • @michigandersea3485
      @michigandersea3485 2 роки тому

      Couldn't it ever. What many here in the USA don't know is that most of our Founding Fathers read and revered Confucius, and held his principles of meritocracy and humaneness in very high regard. President James Madison even hung a portrait of Confucius on the wall of the White House.

  • @kimmccabe1422
    @kimmccabe1422 3 роки тому +14

    What an amazing man. A true prophet begging for one God decency and harmony and a strong family upbringing! Without religion!

    • @jacksonquinn8744
      @jacksonquinn8744 3 роки тому

      They had a religion in a sense. It was more so ancestral worship than anything

  • @deadgoon2170
    @deadgoon2170 3 роки тому +10

    I tried to like this, needed a little more history of the man himself. And of the times he lived in. Appreciate the effort.

  • @timothyfarrington8407
    @timothyfarrington8407 3 роки тому +12

    Can you do/ is there one on Lao Tzu (daoism) too, I’m finding it difficult to find easily accessible - extensive - information on it.

  • @willieluncheonette5843
    @willieluncheonette5843 2 роки тому +4

    "These three great Masters remained individuals. Once in a while somebody was impressed by their writings, but it remained intellectual, so there is no hope in the near future of Lieh Tzu, Chuang Tzu or Lao Tzu being born again in China, or their influence in any way changing the course of China’s history, because in fact they have never been of any great importance in China’s mind. Confucius and Lao Tzu were contemporaries. Confucius had even gone to meet Lao Tzu, because Lao Tzu was certainly a man of tremendous qualities. Confucius was a great thinker, but only a thinker. He had nothing as far as his own inner consciousness is concerned, no experience, no idea who he is, but he had planned for the society perfectly well, a very mannered, cultured society.
    Hearing that Lao Tzu was nearby, living in a cave beyond the lake, he went to see him. A few of his disciples also went, but he told them, “You wait outside the cave.” They said, “Why? It will be good, we can listen.” He said, “You don’t understand. I will tell you the reason later on. Let me go first. If I feel it right I will call you in.”
    They stayed outside, Confucius went in. Lao Tzu was sitting silently. He did not say to Confucius even to sit down, and Confucius was man of manners, etiquette. He had not expected that a great sage, Lao Tzu, would not even ask. He did not say hello or even hi - even that short form, “hi.” He simply sat down, looking at Confucius, and Confucius said, “Sir, don’t you believe in manners?”
    Lao Tzu laughed. He said, ‘I thought you knew all the manners - what is the need for me to tell you? If you feel like sitting, you will sit down! You are not a man who does not know manners. If you like to stand up, it is my etiquette not to disturb you. You can stand up!” Confucius said, “But you… you did not even say hello.” Lao Tzu said, “I said it. You could not hear it. It was a test: I said it silently. I wanted to know whether the famous philosopher Confucius understands silence or not. So you understand only words - that much is decided! And you have expectations. You cannot sit down on your own, you have to be told. This cave does not belong to me. When I came here, nobody said ‘sit down,’ because nobody was here. Why should I say it? It is not my cave, nothing belongs to me. Just the way I am sitting, you can sit down. You are not a child to be told.”
    Confucius had never met such a man. And on each point he was rebuffed badly. Then Lao Tzu said, “If you really want to learn anything, first go and renounce all the idiots you have collected as your disciples. You don’t know anything and you have thousands of disciples. It is hilarious! You just go and tell them the truth, that you don’t know anything, and then come, because I teach only if somebody does not know. If he knows it already, why should he bother me? An old man… Leave me alone!”
    Confucius came out, and he had not the courage to say to his disciples that he did not know. He had thousands of disciples, he was the most famous man at that time. Very few people knew about Lao Tzu. Confucius has remained a shadow over the whole of Chinese history. It is only somewhere in the footnotes you can find the name of Lao Tzu.
    Confucius was not courageous enough to say “I do not know.” The disciples said “You didn’t ask us to come in. He said, “It was good that I didn’t ask you to come in. And please don’t ask the reason. That man is not a man; he is a dragon. He is dangerous, avoid him as far as possible. This is my first and last meeting with that old guy!”
    And he was perspiring. It was a cold morning and the cave was very cool, but he was perspiring. The disciples said, “But why are you perspiring?” He said, “I am alive - that’s enough! Just take me away from here.”"

  • @stewartthomas2642
    @stewartthomas2642 Рік тому +1

    Love your stuff kick on love it

  • @martinushardy2459
    @martinushardy2459 2 роки тому +2

    Many Thanks for this story and learning, it is difficult to be a good person with moral compass , agreeing so many principles or basics and hoping to see a better world if Confucius teaching and ways but this is of many different of everythings in our world, I am hopping the real truth will come up soon for better on our world.

  • @doncunningham5242
    @doncunningham5242 2 роки тому +1

    Compounded interest... I quite agree with Albert Einstein.

  • @alexanderaustin3898
    @alexanderaustin3898 3 роки тому +3

    Lovely documentary, just too many adverts

  • @bigpoppa6658
    @bigpoppa6658 2 роки тому +3

    The great Laozi Confucius. His philosophy is leaving almost every east and South east Asian countries. Something western people can't take away from us

  • @4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz
    @4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz 2 роки тому +4

    This channel is among the best on UA-cam when it pumps out this sort of content.

    • @JakerTheSnake
      @JakerTheSnake 6 місяців тому

      You can thank the UA-cam historical documentary purge of 2010 and beyond for the limited variety on the subject.

  • @PhantomStella
    @PhantomStella 3 роки тому +5

    Really interesting thanks

  • @nadiafariauk
    @nadiafariauk 3 роки тому +3

    Amazing

  • @aleaiacetaest9132
    @aleaiacetaest9132 3 роки тому +6

    Confucius said, ‘I didn’t say any of that stuff!’ 🤷🏽‍♀️ 😂

  • @MrVictor1945
    @MrVictor1945 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks

  • @WarynAbi
    @WarynAbi 3 роки тому +6

    Well done

  • @americannightmare2109
    @americannightmare2109 2 роки тому +2

    Love the voice

  • @kleydumbf
    @kleydumbf 2 роки тому +2

    love this

  • @maureensurdez7841
    @maureensurdez7841 2 роки тому +1

    Dame Dench? narrating? love her talent!

  • @steventan3656
    @steventan3656 3 роки тому +5

    Till today Confucius teaching still being practice throughout China .
    ..Even the presence gov"t CCP still used his ideas to teach n rules China . Every family loves Confucius n teach their children

  • @danicornea
    @danicornea 3 роки тому +2

    Many thanks...

  • @williammcenaney1331
    @williammcenaney1331 3 місяці тому

    Americans can learn much from Confucius. Though I love my country, admire the Chinese and Japanese peoples. So, I hope and pray I'll interpret the Analects accurately. I am and always will be thoroughly Western, but I agree often with that wise sage,

  • @marshaneilson6418
    @marshaneilson6418 Рік тому +1

    Evenings

  • @juliamcgrath3364
    @juliamcgrath3364 3 роки тому +6

    Found you through @real royalty

  • @jasonjohinke5651
    @jasonjohinke5651 2 роки тому +1

    Have they ever questioned these values... no... that's the difference in enlightenment

  • @ViolinStimme
    @ViolinStimme 3 роки тому +8

    Yehudi Menuhin said: "Inspiration is best but good habits are better than bad ones!"

  • @janethayes5941
    @janethayes5941 3 роки тому +3

    I'd like to see more documentaries about women and not just queens. That being said, I do enjoy all your docs and this is one of the best channels I subscribe to. 😁🥰💞

  • @patrickgoldsmith4407
    @patrickgoldsmith4407 2 роки тому +2

    There seems to be a neglect of Taoism in this video. The Yi Jing & Tao Te Jing were important to the early Confucians as established connections to the oneness of cosmic order.

    • @katejudson8907
      @katejudson8907 Рік тому

      Absolutely agree. In fact, leaving out the other roots of Chinese philosophy and worldview seems to me to reinforce the Western anti- Chinese sentiment of the Chinese people lacking individuality, and their sense of common good being derived by a fearfulness of being overlorded by a swarm of legalists. That is a distortion. Without mentioning the deep Buddhist ( at it's heart, Christianlike but without the crusading ) and Taoist roots of Chinese consciousness that remain today this portrays, yet again, that Chinese people are submissively led by the nose of one authority. So not true. This should have been addressed.

  • @0animalproductworld558
    @0animalproductworld558 Рік тому

    My 1st video and so far the impression is enormous!!!

  • @fokkenhotz1
    @fokkenhotz1 2 роки тому +1

    WOW! confuscius was a GIANT which were so common in those days size was often overlooked in discriptions art and texts but the Art shows the truth that ancient wood burnt picture depicted confuscius actual size. art don't lie.

    • @katejudson8907
      @katejudson8907 Рік тому +1

      Art don't lie? What do you mean? Art is literally a visual narrative, not a document faithful to reality. Archeological records don't lie, but of course we don't have a tomb of Confucius. Art is literally a distortion, and whatever is treasured to survive is the ' legend ' that is cherished most.

  • @jasonjohinke5651
    @jasonjohinke5651 2 роки тому

    Confucius say 'man who go out with flat chested woman... have right to feel low'

  • @jamespatrick4654
    @jamespatrick4654 3 роки тому +2

    Needs more adverts.

  • @mistiblu9133
    @mistiblu9133 Рік тому

    I would love to see how I got in Chinese society... Absolutely Beautiful culture!

  • @donfenton7473
    @donfenton7473 3 роки тому +3

    👑

  • @redelfshotthefood8213
    @redelfshotthefood8213 2 роки тому +1

    This philosophy does not address psychopaths and sociopaths. Which makeup 4% of all people. These potentially evil folk will ruin followers of confuscious.

    • @gabrielhu6596
      @gabrielhu6596 2 роки тому

      He never said there doesn’t need to be laws and punishment, he just said they don’t need to be the focus. And in a sense the legalist tradition, which defined the Qin dynasty developed to answer this problem. Later the school merged, Kindness and Harshness, the bread and the sword were used as it was suitable.

  • @nahnotforme9819
    @nahnotforme9819 2 роки тому +3

    To say humans are the only species that can have emphaty is very arrogant. Any person that has a dog and treats them as a family member and not a pet knows they have emphaty just as we do.

  • @有大伪
    @有大伪 3 роки тому +5

    Confucius advocated integrity over wealth. While ironically some people make Confucius an industry to make money.
    Confucius advocated rule by morality. While ironically, Confucius descents enjoy their privilege to serve those evils in power as a symbol of submission to authority in the past 2 millennium.
    Confucius is a chatter who can't stop talking about something everyone knows already. And those in power always use his philosophy as their ideology of ruling. Some people say that Confucius is a dominate philosophy of China. Exactly! But never forgot there are hundred of different doctrines as the same time of Confucius. Confucius is only one of these doctrines.

    • @jacksonquinn8744
      @jacksonquinn8744 3 роки тому +1

      Not to mention when communists took over China they rebranded and discarded everything that wasn't "useful" to them. Culture and all. Confusionism may very well have been tailored on a later date than when the ideology/philosophy was first coined.

    • @mao4634
      @mao4634 2 роки тому

      @@jacksonquinn8744 That's not how they viewed it. They didn't see Confucianism as not useful, but rather an obstacle to progress. They thought that traditional ideas like confucianism was the reason why China got bullied by western powers and why it was weak. In their minds, communists wanted a China free of old dogmatic beliefs that they believed held them back. Yet in the West, it's common to accuse communists of destroying traditional culture, when it was the westerners in the first place who caused communists to think that way.

  • @ahheng6402
    @ahheng6402 2 роки тому +1

    At age 40, I come to know about Dizi Gui, Standards for being a Good Pupil and Child change my life & business.

  • @jhweisen
    @jhweisen Рік тому

    A healthy dose of Confucianism would help the world a lot. The pope should definitely promote Confucianism, not just the Bible.

  • @Steven-fv8xw
    @Steven-fv8xw 3 роки тому +3

    and ancient korea and modern south korea

    • @Dou_Y
      @Dou_Y 3 роки тому +1

      No, not at all, never, its a western country, totally westernized by America, it has nothing to do with confucius- the Chinese phylosopher

  • @outisnemo555
    @outisnemo555 3 роки тому +2

    Confucius was NOT a commoner. He was an aristocrat. His family was related to the Emperors of the Shang dynasty.

    • @solotraveller888
      @solotraveller888 Рік тому

      I’m descended from Genghis Khan,I’m an aristocrat then.😂😂😂

    • @outisnemo555
      @outisnemo555 10 місяців тому

      ⁠@@solotraveller888That’s different. Confucius was born into a family with official aristocratic positions. He wasn’t a bastard or a descendant of illegitimate children. He was the legitimate descendant of one of the Shang princes, and his lineage was recognized by the Zhou dynasty government.

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 3 роки тому +2

    Speeder and not misleader

  • @maryannmacmurray4279
    @maryannmacmurray4279 Рік тому

    I like the Tibetan and Chinese people

  • @johnallenismynameandmusici2796
    @johnallenismynameandmusici2796 2 роки тому +6

    At about this same time there were 17 kingdoms in Britain. So for the Chinese to have about the same amount doesn't sound unusual. Confucius was a great human being and I don't know why the modern Chinese are going down this authoritarian path since it is certainly not what Confucius preached. But I don't know why you would have to teach people to be empathetic towards others. In many towns your neighbor was the only one who could help you if you were attacked. So people are very neighborly, empathetic and helpful in America. But we treat our elderly like crap. The fact that the older people got served first food in famines tells you something. Normally in the West the food would be given to the youngest so they could survive and carry on. By giving food to the elderly first you are saying we need these people to help us or there will be nothing to survive for.

    • @Insertia_Nameia
      @Insertia_Nameia 2 роки тому

      Well as for the elderly being served 1st, I think it's because in much of the west, there has become a great imbalance, one that seems to get greater with every generation. Yes every generation has issues with the ones before and directly after, but it has been getting bad. Respect is earned and a 2 way street. In much of the west, elders demanded respect without earning it. The elderly earn their respect by contributing with their wisdom and lessons. They may often no longer have the body to fully utilize their knowledge and skills, but they can teach it to the coming generations. That is usually why the young have reverence for their elders. The young garner respect as they grow and become more independent. They earn by behaving so they can learn the lessons from their elders.
      Take the U.S. for example, many of (mind you I'm not saying all,) the older couple generations have orgotten this and many have refuses to pass on their knowledge, leaving their children and children's children with a massive knowledge gap and left them to figure everything out on their own. They were very hands off parents, more so than in just about any time in history of the world. Even in past cultures where children started such hard labor at 5 and where they then often died by 6 or 7 and their labours left massive fractures and legions on their bones to tell their short tales, often had better guidance and care by their elders. This has left the youngest of the last 2, and even 3 generations now. Mich of the former 2 (f which I belong) had a tendency to go to the opposite extremes, causing a slight rift with the latter, the youngest of whom are their own children, while the older generally belonging to the youngest of the previous generation. The younger-ish, of those generations feel cheated and abandoned because the previous generation refused to teach and they had to fight and blindly claw their qay through life and figure out much of the most basics of basics all on their own. Then their elders have the gall to call the entitled now that they are old enough to have their own voice in society and demand that the next generations aren't left to their own devices, many of which they built themselves, like they were.
      Now all sides have gotten extreme and caught up in their emotions perhaps thanks to social/mass media,) and like the humans they are, are being too stubborn to admit that, just about, they have now all wronged and refuse to start negation over with a clean slate.

    • @gabrielhu6596
      @gabrielhu6596 2 роки тому

      If you’e asking why China is okay with “authoritarian” governance, you need to understand the Confucian filial-piety and Loyalty. In confucianism the perfect social order is one that is modelled after the family. The father is the benevolent ruler of the household, and the sons are supposed to be obedient. Confucius criticise insubordination heavily, saying to be without filial piety is to be like an animal. The king/emperor/any ruler is to be the universal father, and the people are the sons of the ruler. As long as the ruler is benevolent, it is the subject’s duty to obey. Disobedience to a benevolent ruler is a carnal sin, it’s chaos. And benevolent in Chinese traditions means being able to lead people into a peaceful and moral life, with moderate prosperity, Mencius made it very specific, 「少康」. Too wealthy made mundane people corrupt, too much poverty have the same effect, so it’s the appropriate amount of relatively equal distribution that is considered to be the most moral state of a country. Freedom is not of concerned, because when the people are seen as children that needed to be taken care of, they don’t know what is the best for themselves. And it puts all the responsibility of running a society on to the “gentleman” class.

    • @johnallenismynameandmusici2796
      @johnallenismynameandmusici2796 2 роки тому

      @@gabrielhu6596 I think I understand what you're saying. Some of it sounds like Chairman Mao, like everybody is a child of the State and therefore should work for the State's best interests. People want to fit in and not be anti-social. But you can't just expect everybody to feel the same way about everything. People need to pursue their own goals and dreams, become entrepreneurs if they want to. People need to fulfill their potential in art, science and business, too. Freedom to think differently creates innovation. If you stifle that you will have a dead zone of creativity. Grown-ups are not children who need to be instructed about life.

    • @gabrielhu6596
      @gabrielhu6596 2 роки тому

      @@johnallenismynameandmusici2796 you’re exactly right. In China the ideal government official is called the “Father-mother official”, to translate plainly. The emperor is the universal father, the bureaucrats were the fathers of the peasants of their locale of governance, the clan leader of a village is father of all families, and father of a family is the ruler of the house. This interconnected structure blurs the boundaries between the public and private domain, in actuality the private domain of the family is the model of the entire body politic.
      It’s not true theres no theory against the absolute rule of the emperor, if for example, the emperor didn’t fulfill the role of a universal father, they would be dethroned often through violent revolution. But the prerequisites is that the people are doing the duty of the son, which is loyalty to the father.
      This aspect of Confucian culture made it very persistent, because it does not rely on any political entity or laws to derive its legitimacy, and it appeal to a very basic instinct of human as a social species to have preferable treatments for their blood relatives. Even if the empire disintegrates, people can simply look at their families and be reminded that the fundamental political structure could never be destroyed.
      But it also means the governance emphasis a lot in the conformity of the individual according to their role in the family. Any deviation from that responsibility is literally threatening the legitimacy of culture itself.
      But looking back at China’s history as an agricultural empire, where all the knowledge is directly transmitted from father to son, where the inheritance family property is entirely dependent on blood relations. It would’ve been the most economical way of managing the huge population with the least amount of direct oppression necessary, as people self regulates interms of family.

  • @0animalproductworld558
    @0animalproductworld558 Рік тому +1

    傅 is my last name and it happens it is the last name of the yellow emperor's descendant. To this day I am still mind blown
    I am also a christian so as a christian god has been my only parent and ancestor

  • @dubthedirector
    @dubthedirector 2 роки тому

    “He who goes to bed with itchy backside wakes up with smelly finger”☠️

  • @fintanusa
    @fintanusa Рік тому

    Trusted advisors to the Emperor? That means nothing else than not questioning vassals of the powerful, always acknowledging the hierarchy. Self subjugation to perfection.

  • @taniagarciaduenas48
    @taniagarciaduenas48 Рік тому

    Tania Garcia duenas in Cristo sempre siete richi quanto non capite la sua storia è vero eminente della Irlanda del Nord fino africa Asia Roma 🦁

  • @taniagarciaduenas48
    @taniagarciaduenas48 Рік тому

    The solar cross represents Ireland Nigeria montesertat, the monastery Della Rocca de S Jaume,

  • @threenorns3
    @threenorns3 2 роки тому +2

    so... if i have it right, the Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi united China, but Kong Qiu made it what it is?
    also: Chinese children today are taught from and can read THE words carved 2000 years ago. Meanwhile, English readers cannot decipher Shakespeare!
    29:01 - i love how the village headman's face is glowing with pride! good on him for seeing a problem and taking active measures to correct it. the results speak for themselves!

    • @Insertia_Nameia
      @Insertia_Nameia 2 роки тому +1

      Also English has changed much. "English" didn't really exist 2 thousand yrs ago. Even just coming from the "dark ages" modern English speakers would understand very little, like only a small handful of words, as Middle English was still very much connected to their Germanic roots. (It is one of many a Germanic language after all.)

  • @voraciousreader3341
    @voraciousreader3341 Рік тому

    This narrator drives me nuts….I heard her say, “A man was born,” and I ran for the exit!

  • @EverlastingEgo
    @EverlastingEgo Рік тому

    50:00

  • @travellerabc2739
    @travellerabc2739 3 роки тому +1

    At my childhood it was the time “Critcize Lin Criticize Confucius “ (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticize_Lin,_Criticize_Confucius), the rulers “played” Confucius for thousands years.

  • @max-nm6qx
    @max-nm6qx 7 місяців тому

    "THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK "?BY PROF WALTER VEITH POWERFUL POWERFUL WATCH TRUTH ALWAYS WINS 🙏 ❤

  • @JackAtkins-xz5wi
    @JackAtkins-xz5wi 8 місяців тому

    I’m a descendant of Confucius

  • @jaysonsacobie4617
    @jaysonsacobie4617 7 місяців тому

    Marcus Aurelius has similar traits...

  • @paullee9160
    @paullee9160 Рік тому

    wtf. why does the thumbnail have rising sun in the background? how can i take you people seriously when i see a thumbnail like that? do better.

  • @crox3544
    @crox3544 3 роки тому +7

    Confucius is like the Aristotle of the east

    • @sksksks5072
      @sksksks5072 3 роки тому +5

      Cofucious is Cofucious and aristole is aristole don't compare people by ur western standard

    • @jacksonquinn8744
      @jacksonquinn8744 3 роки тому

      @@sksksks5072 oh gtf over yourself

  • @joelsullivan1248
    @joelsullivan1248 3 роки тому +1

    "Man that stands on toilet, is high on pot"
    - Confucius

  • @friendoftellus5741
    @friendoftellus5741 2 роки тому

    Confucius was truly one of the wisest human beings who ever lived on earth !!!!

  • @jimchen6236
    @jimchen6236 2 роки тому

    I’m not sure if the Yale professor was right to say Confucius was born out of 野交。

  • @darrenfreeman4936
    @darrenfreeman4936 3 роки тому

    1:28:27

  • @0animalproductworld558
    @0animalproductworld558 Рік тому

    Three sacrifices... I wonder if it has to do with the true God. God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus Christ are One

  • @0animalproductworld558
    @0animalproductworld558 Рік тому

    This is better than history channel 🪿

  • @taniagarciaduenas48
    @taniagarciaduenas48 Рік тому

    the roman byzantine empire pursued for years the monk saint patrick hidden for months in there mountain of the north of ireland until the coming of the roman byzantine empire his life i was in god

  • @0animalproductworld558
    @0animalproductworld558 Рік тому

    Very true! He is the father of Chinese society 🦢

  • @ilkeadrall710
    @ilkeadrall710 3 роки тому

    Smoking? Harmonie? I don't think so.

  • @arcsta_rr
    @arcsta_rr 2 роки тому

    3:14 What in the hell happened there?

  • @frankblangeard8865
    @frankblangeard8865 3 роки тому +3

    Confucius's father was a wealthy man who went to great lengths to father an heir. Yet...at 9:36 it is said that Confucius was brought up in severe poverty after his father's death at age 3. Stopped the video right there.

    • @ek7675
      @ek7675 2 роки тому

      I noticed that too!

    • @colehoward5074
      @colehoward5074 2 роки тому

      he had an older son who would be the true heir

    • @morecowbell235
      @morecowbell235 Рік тому

      After his father died, his family was quite poor. So he in fact, did grow up in poverty.
      I can attest to this personally. My father died when I was young and I grew up very poor because of it.

    • @solotraveller888
      @solotraveller888 Рік тому

      You’d grow poor too if the wealth all went to other relatives.😂

  • @mrocean8139
    @mrocean8139 3 роки тому

    17:54

  • @lescorlett4133
    @lescorlett4133 Рік тому

    Confucius he say "Boy with hand in pocket feel cocky. Boy with both hands in pockets he not feel too cocky".

  • @0animalproductworld558
    @0animalproductworld558 Рік тому

    What does it mean to be Chinese? Chinese is a country made up of so many differe t kinds of people!
    I think in the future, you can be a Chinese if you ate Indian and so on... as long as you are in China and you have the kindess, goodness, harmlessness, pureness, and so on

  • @tomace4898
    @tomace4898 3 роки тому

    Confucius say, "Man who runs through airport turnstile is going to Bangkok."

  • @Shineon83
    @Shineon83 Рік тому

    Off-topic, but has anyone ever noticed how male Western Sinologists are-almost without exception-unusually “awkward” & feminine (and just ….weird)?
    I’ve never seen an exception to this….Anyone else?

  • @arkarya8768
    @arkarya8768 2 роки тому

    31:11

  • @shaoouhai3532
    @shaoouhai3532 Рік тому

    There are some merits in the Confucianism for sure especially as a set of moral codes for regular people. However, the Confucianism contributed largely to the demise of the Han dynasty and to the end of "China" as a country of the Han people since the elevation of Confucianism as an official doctrine the early day of the Han dynasty led eventually to 五胡乱华。Since 五胡乱华, the northern China has been invaded and occupied by various barbarous northern nomads, and since the year of 1279 the entire China was invaded and occupied by Mongols and Manchus for > 400 years. The intellectuals of the Jin dynasty, especially the Eastern Jin dynasty as represented by 竹林七贤, knew very well that the Confucianism could NOT be used as an official doctrine. However, The foreign invaders, both of the Mongols and the Manchus, deliberately promoted the Confucianism among the conquered Han Chinese in order to maintain their barbarous rules over them. As a doctrine, Confucianism has done more harm than good to the Han Chinese

  • @napalmholocaust9093
    @napalmholocaust9093 3 роки тому +1

    If you want philosophy, read Nietzsche. He got it right, spent the last few decades refusing to speak to anyone. He was right. The airs people give themselves are tedious and banal, every "enlightened being" ain't. Your ego is poison.

    • @Laura_Seicean
      @Laura_Seicean 2 роки тому

      @@kevinroberts8467 yeah, he was crazy as hell, nothing good could come from his nihilism but destruction. The ancient wise was uplifting and aimed for improvement .

  • @wally9935
    @wally9935 2 роки тому

    how sad chinese dictators haven't taken these teachings to heart in any way

  • @taniagarciaduenas48
    @taniagarciaduenas48 Рік тому

    St. Patrick created a large Catholic church monks in Ireland leaving the Celtic cross because Romans did not accept Other Catholic religion was amenaciated to death captured and condensed,