/lit/ - Literature

>>11989216
Confucius usually seems to get dunked on by Laozi, but in general it feels like in the end making your mad Virtue Gains as a Confucian is necessary as much as deterritorializing with the Dao. ofc, it is the nature of Chinese philosophy that Confucius and Laozi (and the Buddha) all get along, as the famous Vinegar Tasters portrait shows. there is nothing like a Plato/Aristotle split. and it makes you realize too how much more interesting the philosophical bromance, friendship, or even productive rivalry has been to the West, rather than the individual thinkers themselves. consider the following, some of which are lived friendships, relations of influence, rivalries, working partnerships, and so on:

>Socrates and virtually everyone he meets
>Hegel-Marx
>Schopenhauer-Nietzsche
>Nietzsche-Heidegger
>Deleuze and Guattari
>Leibniz and Spinoza
>Uncle Nick and Aunt Sadie
>[insert here to make me look foolish]
>&c

things are a lot more interesting when the wasp and the orchid have an aparallel evolution, in other words. and Chinese philosophy is full of *encounters.*

anyways Chinese theories of knowledge are where it's at, imho. especially right now. they're just so cool. i was looking through pic rel on the bus today and having a royal good time. for me the attraction to Chinese stuff just comes from really feeling at times as though all of this Baudrillard &c has basically really set me free in a kind of zero-G world. but the floaty world is kind of where the Chinese guys shine, in a way, when things aren't so hard and fast and where once isn't fucking being harried around by paranoia and ideology all the time. it's really fascinating stuff, i find.

so yeah, moar Chinese metaphysics anon. finding the Way is way way cool.