/lit/ - Literature

>>16501099
Good post.

>>16241802
Mencius was an enemy of tyranny and one of the few philosophers who actually thought the ruler should improve the lives of their people. I don't think its utopian to believe that people have the capacity to act morally right if they are guided to do so. Xunzi was to dour on the capacity of human goodness. I don't know how you can call Mencius a tyrant and then turn around and call Shang Yang and Han Fei based when they literally created the most bald-faced philosophy for tyrants in the history of political thought. It isn't a coincidence that the shortest lived dynasty in Chinese history was also the only explicitly Legalist one. Legalism represented cruelty exceeding all possible tolerance, which ironically made it terrible at it's raison d'etre—the maintenance of power; it was the system that grasped at power the hardest that caused the people to fall into anarchy, not the one which trusted in their potential for goodness. Mencius well predicted the problem with legalism, which is the problem with all tyranny: when people follow you only because they fear you, the second your back is turned they rise up in revolt; but when people follow you 'with their hearts', your position is far more secure than anything fear could provide.
Shen Dao is mostly fragments. If you have access to a university library databases you should be able to read it (i remember reading in some rando's dissertation). It wouldn't take more than 20 minutes and in while there is some interesting fragments, you can find most of it in Han Fei.
anyway, i have to sleep now. good night.

>>16225272
If you love logic so much, you should be able to translate this for me.
¬x<y∃z(z<x∧z∫y)
or, if you're unfamiliar with that notation
¬xεpt(y)∃z(zεpt(x)∧zεex(y))

children in the future will grow up having never seen a tree or a river or the sun

>>14545054
>Preferably not psued bullshit like Freud
>give me the answer, just don't give me the one I know is right but don't like
fuck off cunt

gib recommendations for learning material

>>9125358
Fug yes this is my fetish