Sir, I just want to thank you for making all these very insightful lectures public. You stand out as a lecturer in that you are able to keep the listener's attention the whole time. I think that I have almost every lecture on your channel that I have not listened to yet on my "watch later" list. Again, your generosity in sharing your knowledge is very much appreciated. Thank you.

"A person of character trying to do something is better than a person who may know exactly what to do, but has no character" 45:08

Confucius did of course also see that even in a relative meritocracy like his that corruption would inevitably build up with nepotism, causing a government to become less and less efficient until it could no longer govern, then it would lose 'The Mandate of Heaven' and fall to a new, hopefully better, government. Every (native Han anyway) dynasty that overthrew a previous one used this rhetorical device. This is quite similar to the theory on the cycles of civilizations based off complacent rot and subsequent rise of new rulers from outside the ruling class who have high group-solidarity in Ibn Khaldun's Muqadimmah from the 14th Century. Which reminds me...that in the future it would be great if you did a lecture on Ibn Khaldun.

Thank you for sharing this on KZfaq. My partner and I enjoy listening to your lectures together here in Denmark.

I love this video so much, whenever I feel lost I come and listen to it and it always helps me to find solutions, thx wes I really wish education like this was supported and encouraged more

Count me in for $100 toward a Kickstarter to animate your lectures, Wes! Thank you from Frankfort, Michigan!

Thank you for uploading

Thanks for this.

So are the Chinese Concentration Camps effective application of Confucianism?

Nice 720p video quality. Nah but seriously, I enjoy these. Thanks for uploading.

23:46 Might I suggest "The Happy Vulcan's Dog"?

Wes....Do you know why you said "bless you" when that person sneezed?

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake

10:50 I'll be back

Please do Albert Camus.

Big +1 for Lin Yu-Tang.

Great audio lecture! Great rhythm, delivery, and humor A tip? 💡 How about adding some background music? Make a great thing even better 😊.

Make your bed..... now I know where Jordan Peterson gets his clean your room mantra.

Confucius wants you to make your bed and says drain the swamp. He’s part Jordan Peterson and part Donald Trump and all BOSS!

Confucianism = "Relative" Stability.

What is the basis for sorting out viewers' comments? It is unfair to remove comments in ad hock manner without any proper base and which are counter arguing some facts. It is not philosophy, isn't it?

6th!

Yang

Ur the past, oh ancient one - get a twitter acnt already.

The idea that Martin Shkreli is simply a "third-rate human being" is ill-informed groupthink. He certainly isn't a role model for me, but he has, on several occasions made good arguments for his company's actions and the neccesity of the massive price increase.

I had to I give you a thumbs down on this one. I think there is a huge difference between Confucius, and Confucianism(and things like neo-confucianism.) Confucianism is something that has gone astray. Even Confucius wasn't perfect in his ideology. You pointed out the Prime Minister of China as being Confucius, most likely. But this same person chastising the nobility around him for having poor character, is the leader of a party that killed 3/4ths the amount of ppl that died in WWII. On top of that, he then appointed himself Prime Minister for the rest of his life. Thereby negating a democratic voting system. Confucianism still oppresses a lot of Asian women today, even in their own families...So, you're not painting a realistic picture here with your favouritism of Confucianism. Supposedly Confucius himself saw himself as a failure because he never became the right hand advisor of an emperor. That's classically Confucius. There's lots of great things about Confucius, but Confucianism is very much a total FUBAR.

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