tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post221345773950731090..comments2024-03-25T11:49:21.281-07:00Comments on The Splintered Mind: Confucius (Kongzi) on Loving LearningEric Schwitzgebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-88023364790444327172020-01-24T09:15:58.774-08:002020-01-24T09:15:58.774-08:00Thanks for the continuing comments, folks! To res...Thanks for the continuing comments, folks! To respond to Callan's "controversial" remark: No, I don't think so, as long as there is room for learning and improvement *within* the one Way that you endorse -- as long as you don't think you have every nuance figured out. (Personally, I am more of a skeptic and pluralist than Confucius, though.)Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16274774112862434865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-20908456742056687662020-01-23T08:22:21.238-08:002020-01-23T08:22:21.238-08:00Is it that philosophy is seeing "transformati...Is it that philosophy is seeing "transformative learning" has many stages many ways, where when needed...<br /><br />and or...Is it that religion is seeing "transformative learning" has many stages many ways, where when needed...<br /><br />and...Is it that evolution is "transformative learning" in many stages many ways, occurring where when...<br /><br />...Arnoldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02580641063222662041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-36371747847410082142020-01-22T14:27:34.673-08:002020-01-22T14:27:34.673-08:00Well, I'll be controversial: Perhaps to endors...Well, I'll be controversial: Perhaps to endorse one true way is to not love learning? Indeed perhaps it is the opposite, it is the discarding of all other ways but the one true way and not learning any of those other ways at all. Just learning one thing out of millions of things? Is that really a love for learning?Callannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-80164746392652295962020-01-21T17:44:23.055-08:002020-01-21T17:44:23.055-08:00...'cultivating this type of love of learning ......'cultivating this type of love of learning in yourself, by genuinely delighting in corrective moral feedback' with others, for...<br /><br />My take...for a way of helping being here now...<br /><br />Professor, more East meets West please...Arnoldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02580641063222662041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-6699418852970962942020-01-21T14:03:52.909-08:002020-01-21T14:03:52.909-08:00Thanks, Eric - a revealing insight from the ancien...Thanks, Eric - a revealing insight from the ancient East. Not so dissimilar from the insight from the ancient West, found in the Greek roots for the word "philosophy" - which I paraphrase on my Home Page: "Philosophy is the use of human reason to increase wisdom, the goal of which is to live a life that is right and good."George Gantzhttp://www.spiralinquiry.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-29106274261775173512020-01-21T09:10:35.322-08:002020-01-21T09:10:35.322-08:00Thanks for the comments, folks!
Howie: Yes, that ...Thanks for the comments, folks!<br /><br />Howie: Yes, that seems right.<br /><br />SelfAware: Maybe so. But on the other hand, I find it kind of inspiring to imagine being a person who genuinely loves having their moral faults pointed out. Could I try to be a little more like that?<br /><br />Callan: Endorsing one true Way is probably essential to Kongzi's moral clarity.Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16274774112862434865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-84117944513037562872020-01-21T00:47:04.981-08:002020-01-21T00:47:04.981-08:00It kind of requires moral betterment to have a one...It kind of requires moral betterment to have a one true way, doesn't it?Callannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-89889930045476810282020-01-20T17:15:29.213-08:002020-01-20T17:15:29.213-08:00I don't know that anyone really likes being co...I don't know that anyone really likes being corrected, morally or intellectually. It seems to me implying that we should like it sets a very high standard, maybe too high, a reason for otherwise conscientious people to feel guilty.<br /><br />It seems more productive to just admit that this isn't something we're going to enjoy, but that we're better off for being open to it.SelfAwarePatternshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856665627652130336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-39851196015810109152020-01-20T09:02:52.236-08:002020-01-20T09:02:52.236-08:00From personal experience I think this involves int...From personal experience I think this involves integrating moral critiques into one's self and into one's world view- it involves decentering and really viewing other people as equals .<br />It is a kind of low key reverence for othersHowiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12474061778220524205noreply@blogger.com