How come Confusianism has never been popular in the west? Not enough freedom for liberal college studients?

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Anonymous Mon May 20 05:52:54 2013 No.3776308 [Reply] [Original]

How come Confusianism has never been popular in the west?
Not enough freedom for liberal college studients?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 20 05:54:54 2013 No.3776312 File: 81 KB, 639x496, 1362874585601.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Probably because its Chinese. The only Eastern philosophy that people care about in the West is usually Japanese or Indian.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 20 06:15:54 2013 No.3776338 >>3776312 Zen is Chinese, I think. So is Taoism.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 20 06:17:54 2013 No.3776342 >>3776308 >popular in the west Only things that condone homobuttsex and promiscuity become popular in the west.

Anonymous Mon May 20 06:52:54 2013 No.3776372

>>3776308
>How come Confusianism has never been popular in the west?

Confucianism is steeped in Chinese tradition, intended for Chinese society and mindsets. Westerners have no real connection to it. Hinduism never penetrated into China for the same reasons (it was reconstituted as Buddhism, really a separate tradition which only gained ground in China by making itself completely amenable to Chinese tradition.)

>>3776338
>Zen is Chinese, I think. So is Taoism.

What passes for Zen or Taoism in the West isn't really the same thing...

Anonymous Mon May 20 14:50:38 2013 No.3777170

>>3776372
>(it was reconstituted as Buddhism, really a separate tradition which only gained ground in China by making itself completely amenable to Chinese tradition.)
WAT?1

>What passes for Zen or Taoism in the West isn't really the same thing...
That is the joke here, where are all the liberals claming that confucius invented X freedom or some shit like that? Confusianism should be pretty bastardized by now judging what chan/zen and taoism have been draged in.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 20 14:55:55 2013 No.3777179 >>3776308 >How come Socrates has never been popular in the east? >Not enough structured thinking for institutionalized college students?

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