Speculative tales: Confucius

We have at last heard the name of Confucius(551-479 b. Ch.), that has given teaches in a period of China when the moral decadence was dominant; his teachings are mots that, always, took the elementary logic of speculation, and they are obvious but he wanted given the analysis of reality. Some example: one of primaries maxims: “I don’t dislike because everybody knows me but I worry because I don’t know the men”, in fact it is true because when we think that we know a person, also a friend, during time we recognize that of this friend we known very scant; but because we don’t know the human gender and his behavior in particular context. Other maxim is: “Who governs through the virtues is comparable to the polar star, that is immobile while the others come around”, Confucius known certainly, that the stars are immobile, but with this maxim he has wanted give an example of good govern; but he hasn’t considered that he could have given also a maxim about the pimps that usually are around the power men; a little advisement, type: “It is advisement: the execution immediately for the pimps”. Other maxim that we can apply to speculation of political man: “You must see what a man makes, look the motives that move him and look that he like. What can he hide to you?”; it is the truth because you can know perfectly what he likes, hence he difficulty could hide something. Other: “The acknowledge isn’t a tool that is set for a alone motive”, in fact when Socrates advised his pupils, although he didn’t consider herself a master, of attend the wises because from them was possible know, and it is a duty of wise, to given advisement and teaching. A pupil of Confucius asked about the wise, and Confucius answered: “Before he become his words, and these are consequent to his actions”; it is a lesson that millions of persons should follow, because speak about of something is very easy, but make that is alone verbal concept is very coherent and it is the immense difficult. Always around the wise: “The wise is universal and no particular, the vulgar man is particular  and no universal”; it is true but to be universal is otherwise to be abstract, because nothing teaching is universal, because we live in this word, therefore we must be particular. Other truth: To study without meditation is useless, and meditate without to study is danger”, in fact we risk to infer something that is very mistake. And an motto that seems Socratic: “Yu do you want know what is the knowledge? It is that that you know say that you know, but what you didn’t know you must say that you don’t know, it is the knowledge”, Socrates was usual to say: “I known that I don’t know”. Other note: “Lin Fan asked what is the essence of rites…and Confucius answered: “In the ceremonies of holiday the sobriety is preferable to prodigality, in the funeral ceremonies the heartfelt dolor is preferable than to external acts”, it is the preference of sincerity than hypocrisy.

Alessandro Lusana