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Confucius was more based and had better economy of words than Plato hth

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Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot
  07/17/26
Confucius say, is good to meet girl in park, but better to p...
Heady hominid
  07/18/26
180 This is a good one—gonna use it
bronze dysfunction office
  07/18/26
孔子曰 「 im gay 」
beady-eyed lavender yarmulke
  07/17/26
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Contagious corner legal warrant
  07/18/26
NSAM???
transparent candlestick maker
  07/18/26
im 100% Han Chinese
exhilarant pocket flask
  07/17/26
Cyber-Multiculturalism is Highly Generative, if the history ...
Contagious corner legal warrant
  07/18/26
They aren't really comparable. Plato and Aristotle laid down...
Lascivious gay wrinkle
  07/17/26
ljl the Analects are directly comparable to the Socratic dia...
Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot
  07/17/26
You are painfully stupid
Lascivious gay wrinkle
  07/17/26
https://i.imgur.com/N52PInX.jpeg
Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot
  07/17/26
"OK Claude, agree with me! Go."
transparent candlestick maker
  07/18/26
go ahead and try. Make Claude say I'm wrong.
Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot
  07/18/26
The point is that what you wrote is non-responsive given the...
Lascivious gay wrinkle
  07/18/26
tl; dr
Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot
  07/19/26
tp
Cerebral Drab Background Story Location
  07/18/26
computer online (🧐)-free thread now
Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot
  07/18/26
Good for Confucius and China
fragrant hospital son of senegal
  07/18/26
Go to askphilosophy r/askphilosophy 2y ago GigaChan450 ...
Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot
  07/18/26
Not sure you can make that statement without reading both in...
mentally impaired zippy plaza
  07/18/26
Even if you're illiterate in every language, you can tell th...
Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot
  07/18/26
Never seen someone hallucinate "facts" the way you...
Heady hominid
  07/19/26
Great argument
Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot
  07/19/26


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Date: July 17th, 2026 6:07 PM
Author: Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50007161)



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Date: July 18th, 2026 3:07 PM
Author: Heady hominid

Confucius say, is good to meet girl in park, but better to park meat in girl.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50008505)



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Date: July 18th, 2026 11:27 PM
Author: bronze dysfunction office

180

This is a good one—gonna use it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50009303)



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Date: July 17th, 2026 6:08 PM
Author: beady-eyed lavender yarmulke

孔子曰 「 im gay 」

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50007163)



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Date: July 18th, 2026 3:04 PM
Author: Contagious corner legal warrant



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Date: July 18th, 2026 3:07 PM
Author: transparent candlestick maker

NSAM???

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50008503)



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Date: July 17th, 2026 6:08 PM
Author: exhilarant pocket flask

im 100% Han Chinese

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Date: July 18th, 2026 3:06 PM
Author: Contagious corner legal warrant

Cyber-Multiculturalism is Highly Generative, if the history of Autoadmit is any indication…

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50008501)



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Date: July 17th, 2026 6:11 PM
Author: Lascivious gay wrinkle

They aren't really comparable. Plato and Aristotle laid down the foundations for all systematic thought and science, where Confucius was a mystic, more comparable to epictetus or something or perhaps one of the presocratics.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50007171)



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Date: July 17th, 2026 6:13 PM
Author: Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot

ljl the Analects are directly comparable to the Socratic dialogues. This is its own field of study

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50007174)



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Date: July 17th, 2026 6:16 PM
Author: Lascivious gay wrinkle

You are painfully stupid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50007180)



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Date: July 17th, 2026 8:02 PM
Author: Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot

https://i.imgur.com/N52PInX.jpeg

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Date: July 18th, 2026 3:07 PM
Author: transparent candlestick maker

"OK Claude, agree with me! Go."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50008504)



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Date: July 18th, 2026 4:34 PM
Author: Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot

go ahead and try. Make Claude say I'm wrong.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50008608)



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Date: July 18th, 2026 10:16 PM
Author: Lascivious gay wrinkle

The point is that what you wrote is non-responsive given the context of my poast (which was about their place in intellectual history). Showing that A and B are comparable under some dimension d1 does not establish that they are comparable under the dimension d2 under dispute. Nearly any two major thinkers are comparable in some respect. The existence of a scholarly field devoted to such comparison proves only that comparisons can be made, not that the thinkers occupy analogous positions in intellectual history.

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Date: July 19th, 2026 9:10 AM
Author: Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot

tl; dr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50009608)



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Date: July 18th, 2026 4:41 PM
Author: Cerebral Drab Background Story Location

tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50008618)



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Date: July 18th, 2026 4:46 PM
Author: Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot

computer online (🧐)-free thread now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50008619)



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Date: July 18th, 2026 9:42 PM
Author: fragrant hospital son of senegal

Good for Confucius and China

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50009114)



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Date: July 18th, 2026 9:57 PM
Author: Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot

Go to askphilosophy

r/askphilosophy

2y ago

GigaChan450

Why is Plato so Confucian

I am a beginner who got started with Plato, among others. (Plato's a good place to start, hehe) I'm halfway thru Republic.

My cursory thoughts are - given that he's the pioneer of Western philosophy, why is he so Confucian and authoritarian and Asian?

Some key ideas of his:

Everyone shld specialise, do what they're good at, not what they want to

Guardians shld never know their children, have families or wealth

He LOVES to put people into boxes

Perfect state is ruled by philosophers

This is because, we are not islands, we live in an inter-connected society. Our actions have consequences on others. This, altho our individual happiness is important, group happiness is very important too, and arguably more important, that's why all our actions shld consider the group, we cant just do whatever we want

This is essentially Confucianism. The family and the state is more important than the self

I expected Western philosophers to value the self more, broadly speaking

(Finally, can someone tell me if justice is better than injustice, for its own sake?)

https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1awbqkp/why_is_plato_so_confucian/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50009135)



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Date: July 18th, 2026 10:22 PM
Author: mentally impaired zippy plaza

Not sure you can make that statement without reading both in the original language (and understanding both languages at their respective contemporary times).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50009192)



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Date: July 18th, 2026 11:30 PM
Author: Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot

Even if you're illiterate in every language, you can tell the Analects contain fewer words. Chinese back then could only write on bluebook-sized bamboo slats, and I think you could only fit 10 slats in one "book."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50009309)



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Date: July 19th, 2026 4:37 AM
Author: Heady hominid

Never seen someone hallucinate "facts" the way you do, NSAM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50009490)



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Date: July 19th, 2026 9:11 AM
Author: Judgmental Giraffe Coffee Pot

Great argument

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883660&forum_id=2#50009612)