Leah Kalmanson
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276 appearances
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first heard Mar 2021
last heard Mar 2021
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You know, you read the early Analects, um, you read the Tao Dijing, you read these sort of classic sources.
Um
You know, that would be like taking up Western philosophy and really leaving it at Plato and Aristotle.
Um when there's this much longer, richer history of um intellectual back and forth, you know, that this kind of commentarial tradition is is a living thing that these these these uh
writers over the centuries um in Chinese history have been speaking to each other over the classics, appropriating the classics for sometimes completely contradictory political aims.
You know, this was a very sort of subversive practice of commentary at times, right?
Making points that maybe were even at odds uh with what other people thought the texts were saying.
And so Zhu Xi is one of those real central figures who come in at a certain point in history in the Sung dynasty.
and really rethink the canon um as he'd received it.
He constructs the the the four books, which he adds to the five classics, and he really renovates pedagogical models um in in in in Chinese scholarship and at the Chinese academies.
at the time.
So he's just such an inspiring thinker and and and trying to think of texts that I as a teacher select because they
They do give the students the best chance to meet the text halfway, I guess to go back to what I said just before, because someone like Ju Shi is really saying, you know,
Hey you.
You know, and he really makes it clear like he's talking to you, the reader.
Um
And he says really great things about what it means to learn, what it means to know and learn, and how reading itself is a formative process, and how reading itself and in in his context really becomes almost a kind of process of spiritual self-cultivation.
And so thinking through and this goes back to why do I say the word ruism instead of Confucianism?
Because
you know, Confucianism was not the word for the tradition um in Chinese discourse.
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