孔子說 / Confucius Speaks

[kentpaul65102]

video translation to english "At 15 I set my heart on learning; at 30 I firmly took my stand; at 40 I had no delusions; at 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; at 60 my ear was attuned; at 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right."

[hms2008w1010]

40 so no confusion. ? :)

[hts2008w10]

为什么自古就知道西方是极乐世界？而非东方世界？

[frankqio]

Love it, thanks for posting !

[jismith1989]

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[apajalah88]

I Love 孔子說......

[S1587915G]

As for just what 'respect' consists in, take this sentence:

"John is a respectable person. He has a decent 9-to-5 job, looks after his wife and children, and doesn't drink, gamble or have illicit affairs."

I believe this is a perfectly acceptable use of the word 'respectable'. Yet nothing about it entails building a temple in John's name and making offerings to him.

It is in this sense that I speak of respecting the world's cultures. Hope that helped clear up some doubts.

[S1587915G]

Why not give this vid some English subtitles or dub it in English for the benefit of those who know only English? Why limit yourself to a Chinese audience?

[lida15]

吾知天命也!

[ChosonHwabyungNinza]

孔子 was korean ?

[KugelSchnapps]

no!

[RobertTrujilloMTLCA]

Beautifull language but I unfortunately don't understand anything ;p I love Confucius and His ideas

[chaojidaluobo]

maybe you should study chinese character

荀子曰  学不可以已

[RobertTrujilloMTLCA]

Beautifull language but I unfortunately don't understand anything ;p I love Confucius and His ideas

[connie59do]

Abusive parents have abusive children. This cycle needs to be broken. Confucius talks about the duty of the both the parents and children to each other. Maybe this is a bit complicate to you because you never really sat down and reflect why things happened and critically think about what people say.

[kenVHYT]

dipshit, how dose that make him an 'asshole' for telling you to respect your fuckin parents.

[sengoku16]

are u stupid, he was the guy that was gonna rape ur mama for free

[rinwhr]

lol

[rinwhr]

The Master said: I have no secret science. When an ignorant man asks me about something, no matter how shallow the question is I try to inform him the best I can, exhausting the topic in all its aspects.

[SeriousSam505]

you europeans just dont respect asians

[Wizzman101]

being respectful, first u hav to know it? some people just dont know, though no folt of ther one. saying such a thing is not respecful, i hope u know europeans and asians first so u can rlly say wht u mean?

[SeriousSam505]

yes i know it, europeans also dont respect asian culture, they deserve no respect either, always joking with chinese, and show no respect to them, it was thank Huo Yuan Jia that china has gain some respect but even now china is being joked by the other european people

[Wizzman101]

who r you to say such a thing yr been total out of order, europeans do respect one another and other people around the world, i live in the UK and we do not laugh at china we admire it, if you want the truth we fear china!

[SeriousSam505]

in UK marx didnt respect china culture, you should study the story of asian and europe, i've studied at all and not only europeans but occidentals people joke with the asian people culture and traditions, ok probably some do respect but some of them are evil

[Wizzman101]

wow-wow-wow evil? do you mean Karl Marx? plus what jokes are there saying about China because i havnt herd any.

[SeriousSam505]

i've heard a story about him that i dont remember well about it, it was a bout karl marx didnt like the chinese culture and wanted to change it to european culture, i mean he wanted to steal chinese culture to put the european one

[Wizzman101]

first of all Karl Marx was Prussian or today German and he said that communism was good and he serported it I realy dont get what your trying to get at?

[SeriousSam505]

communism good? you dont know nothing about communism, the CCP in china is causing much trouble, turning china into a nightmare, but i think it was because of that bastard that the communism ideas had come to china, communism is evil

[Wizzman101]

oww cool i fort becuz u lived in china tht u liked communism i didnt want to up set you or anything but thts nice to know tht thers some people in china tht dnt like communism, but china isnt communism we see it has a dictatorship, with captilism to make it work and i do now about communism thanks for the presomption.

[SeriousSam505]

agreed

[tintintabulations]

Why should anyone respect a culture, European, Asian or otherwise?

[SeriousSam505]

because respect is important so you can also be respected, sometimes disrespect can cause war

[tintintabulations]

"Respect is important so you can also be respected"

That's a tautology. Why should anyone respect any culture? Who said it was important and worthy of all this respect you demand? I'm not talking about human beings. I agree we should respect human beings.

[SeriousSam505]

i'm talking about respecting other cultures is important in order to give peace, chinese culture for example, the buddhism in china is very important, it gives peace, and peace is good

[tintintabulations]

Should the Native Americans have "respected" the culture of the Europeans? It doesn't make sense to me. Human beings deserve respect. But cultures are different. We do not owe them anything. Respecting them is not at all necessary for peace. Quite the contrary. "Culture" is so often an excuse for war and denying people their natural rights.

[SeriousSam505]

not really, normally the reasons of war are actually monotheist religions

[tintintabulations]

Now you're contradicting yourself. Didn't you say "sometimes disrespect [of culture] can cause war"? Which is it?

In World War Two, what would have been accomplished by Chinese people "respecting" Japanese culture or Jewish people "respecting" German culture? Who gave cultures these rights? I though only human beings had inalienable rights like that.

[S1587915G]

Every culture has some positive achievements, and respecting a culture can mean being appreciative of those achievements. German culture gave rise to people like Bach and Beethoven, and I'm sure the Jews can still appreciate them for all that the Germans had done under the Nazi regime.

Humans are never just individual units, but members of different cultures as well. So respecting fellow human beings inevitably means appreciating their cultures as well. Such appreciation never hurt anyone.

[tintintabulations]

Appreciation, yes. But respect is different. Why be so concerned about demanding respect for culture? I sincerely don't understand.

[S1587915G]

Doesn't appreciation already imply respect? Can you appreciate something but not respect it?

Cultures -- LIVING cultures anyway -- are made of people who have identified themselves with them. Humans are never just individual units as I said, but always parts of a culture. So if you want to respect human beings, you need to respect their cultures, or even better, learn to appreciate them.

[tintintabulations]

"Respect" implies a profound or worshipful admiration, a sense of awe and even deference. Appreciation is a lower order.

And I disagree that we can identify humans with culture. We are more than our cultures and often in conflict with them and with society. We are natural beings, first, endowed with certain rights. Culture is secondary and does not automatically deserve respect. In fact, I am always suspect of people who rely too much on the culturation of politics.

[S1587915G]

Parts of our disagreements lie in the definitions, then. To ME, 'respect' merely means acknowledging that something has the right NOT to be insulted, despised, looked down upon etc. What YOU call 'respect' would correspond more to what *I* call 'appreciation'.

I may not like something personally, but I may still respect it, because it may contain something good of which I am not aware.

[tintintabulations]

In any case, I think what separates us is that I take issue with the idea that you ought to respect/appreciate a culture automatically.

I believe that culture is great, beautiful, interesting, and all are equal, but culture itself is not something we should ever bow to. I find it's so often a way to mystify political or social differences. People are often in profound conflict with "their own" culture. And countries often use "culture" as a means to oppress others or make war.

[S1587915G]

I NEVER suggested anyone BOW to any culture, or hold it in AWE. I merely suggested treating cultures with respect. Reread my definition of 'respect', please.

Every culture contains conflicting elements, and those in conflict with their mother cultures actually ENRICH them through this conflict, as Nietzsche for example with respect to German culture.

All cultures have something good and something bad. We can learn to distinguish and appreciate what is good in them.

[tintintabulations]

Actually, Nietzsche despised German culture and Germans.

I think cultures are equal, beautiful, and have a lot to offer us all of us, but I do not agree with the idea of automatically respecting them--even though you might try to water down the definition of respect to mean something more akin to appreciation.

Disrespecting "culture" as described by those with vested interests in preserving a social or political order is one of the greatest fonts of creativity and revolution in human history.

[S1587915G]

Nietzsche admired Goethe, who was one of the pinnacles of German culture. It would be more correct to say he loved certain parts of German culture and despised others. Same with Confucius with respect to Chinese culture.

As I said, every culture has something good and something bad also. One should exercise one's individual intellect and weed out what is bad in one's own culture, but treasure what is good. Disrespect what is not deserving of respect, but respect what is worthy of respect.

[tintintabulations]

Yes, Nietzsche admired Goethe, but like hell did he admire him the context of "German culture"--which is a concept he consistently and viciously disrespected.

The fact that cultures have good and bad in them is banal and, if anything, helps prove my point that we ought to be extremely skeptical of people who demand respect for them.

[S1587915G]

The fact that cultures contain both good and bad elements shows that they are not to be treated simplistically as monolithic wholes, and that to treat a culture as such is a mistaken move, be it adulation or derision.

A (living) culture is not something abstract. It lives in every individual member of it, and can therefore be shaped by each of these individuals in various ways. S/he can choose to shape it in a positive direction. In this sense all cultures are worthy of respect,

[S1587915G]

Every human being must know at least one language. One who doesn't is little more than an animal. (His right to live should still be acknowledged, of course, but that's a different thing from treating him as a FULLY human being.) But language already implies culture. Every language is evolved from the thoughts and interactions of large numbers of people over centuries. And insofar as the language I use makes up my very conceptual apparatus, it is part of me, as is the culture it comes with.

[tintintabulations]

re language: Check out Noam Chomsky's writing on the language instinct. Language is not so dependent on culture as you think. There exists such a thing as a "universal grammar."

And humans are animals and many types of animals have language.

[S1587915G]

Which animals besides human beings have ever written novels? If animals have language at all it is of a very rudimentary nature.

Regardless of the existence of a universal grammar, Chinese and English, for example, are very different from each other. And there's far more to language than grammar. There are also the values and ways of understanding things implicit in different languages, which are all cultural. Name me a language that hasn't such cultural elements.

[tintintabulations]

Why don't they make novels? Well, other animals have much smaller brains than ours. Besides, it's hard for them to type. ;-)

Chomsky's universal grammar refers to a different phenomenon from the grammar we learn in school. Universal grammar has to do with brain 'structures' that are common to all mankind.

[limkaiheng]

The following is the translation

Ideal Personalities

At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning.

At thirty, I stood firm.

At forty, I had no doubts.

At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven

At sixty, my ear could accept the truth with ease. At seventy, I could follow my heart's desire,without going against what was right."

(Analects,II:4)

[Obbyto]

I think most of what Confucius says is so true, timeless and also so realistic, that a lot of people found it hard to follow his teachings of reality in modern times so that's why you'd see more Confucius jokes than Confucius' teachings!

[connie59do]

And the ass that has jam is the one who said a man who fuck in strawberry patch.

[maomao007]

rofl

[millie301]

yea i need it in english too!!!

[pingotv]

I am planning launch a Confucius course, wanna see the feedback from the public, please share. will launch Zhuangzi and SunTzu if the first course goes well. tx

[focusyourself]

Hey, what a great fragment! Is there anyone who could help me with the exact translation? I understand most of it but not all. It would be really helpful. Thanx anyway. Greetz

[pingotv]

I am planning launch a Confucius course, wanna see the feedback from the public, please share. will launch Zhuangzi and SunTzu if the first course goes well. tx

[codeagent47]

great man of confucius!!!! created the chinese believe and behavior in life.

[pingotv]

I am planning launch a Confucius course, wanna see the feedback from the public, please share. will launch Zhuangzi and SunTzu if the first course goes well. tx

[zhonghua2006]

SUNTZU=SUNZI