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I think for general Taiwanese and Chinese, even in ancient time illiterate people, we study equality philosophy like Laozi ? Zhuang Zi because people ...

Good! if so, we should focus on figuring out the philosophy. The power behind the long life is philosophy.

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:up: I know when Zhuang Zi talked about inequality, he also talked about 'Change'. Also ChungZi this book is always study with 'I Ching' (philosophy o...

Great question! Because the Yellow Emperor was talking about things before him. Chinese words were created by his order. I can not use Chinese history...

I appreciate everyone take time to discuss history and reply that made this question clearer! Chinese civilization loves history background check and ...

Great points! If we take Chinese medicine that description as a clue. Before Apple, humans were: Simple body + Simple brain = Healthy After Apple, hum...

Good points! Colonialism is not totally a bad thing. The Chinese girls' Foot binding for 1,000 years ended because of Colonialism. Since our discussio...

In another case, if a history can survive, it already means it's true. Because in history, those cheating people were lazy to make wrong records, they...

If the society is extremely unequal. e.g. human sacrifice, slavery, bad government. All these happened sometimes in Chinese history. We can find out t...

You are right! Our history discussion let us find out the Chinese record is for all the civilizations and races. Chinese itself is a big mix from all ...

I think I can use your case with Socrates' death to describe equality. When Socrates had a higher value 'dignity', that he wanted to accomplish. He me...

I do hear historians say when they study no word society, they will reference Chinese records. Because the Chinese recorded those no word societies. e...

This we may need to ask Hanover, Lionino, Beverley, Tom Storm. Maybe they see something we don't see.

Maybe somehow meaningful to our discussion. Because Chinese civilization is from western and all other older civilizations. The Chinese race itself is...

For this we can google Yellow Emperor. When we know the Yellow Emperor, we also can see what China that land looked like.

Other older civilizations. Chinese migrated from older civilizations. If we study Chinese civilization, we will find out it's a reformation based on o...

Chinese genealogy and Chinese calendar records the years. Chinese civilization was created by the Yellow Emperor. It didn't exist even one day before ...

3,400 years ago books did record earlier ancient books' things. So 5,000 years ago knowledge is still kept inside the 3,400-year-old books. Older book...

Glad you discussed it. Will you tell your kids or students the wrong things? Chinese things are passed by parents to kids, and masters to disciples. G...

We can discuss both. Especially if people only remember to have policy, but forget the philosophy thinking practice to see everyone is equal. e.g. We ...

Really? I think people are poor because they didn't use their potential enough. It's a potential issue. Everyone is happy with their position after ev...

Thanks for the clarification! I think our OP is to deal with the unequal feeling ( or unequal treatment and unequal experiences of life ) caused by th...

'born into a rich family or poor family' is 'inequality' to you? How about this: 'Have' kids or 'Not Have' kids? If a person is so sad because she can...

For example, if we feel we are born into a rich family, it is not equal as we are born into a poor family. It is inequality. And this feeling of inequ...

Or let's back to the OP? Which part of OP do you feel it's hard to understand? I can try to explain to you? Actually you are asking a good question. I...

ok, if you think so. I agree.

He is hypericin. We posted this question together. He is the cohost. But we did discuss your question in the beginning. Let's try to describe it.

Chinese history is only 5,000 years old. If mapping to the Bible time, it's after 'Tower of the Babel'. Before that, it's not included in Chinese hist...

Chinese history has a very strong civilization and culture supports the truth. But if other countries don't have that similar civilization and culture...

Other countries' things are very hard to learn. I'm still feeling that much of American culture is impossible for me to learn. Even though I have live...

Chinese has 5,000 years of history. We still can easily read any documents from 5,000 years ago. It's not legends, it's history.

We found out 'inequality' is an issue when we discussed our last question: What characterizes the mindset associated with honesty? Considering that in...

For Chinese medicine to be true or not, this probably needs using your own body to try it. No one can tell you. :sweat:

Why did Socrates make a stand: he demanded to be rewarded for his service to Athens.? proposed his own penalty: that he should be given free food and ...

Many philosophers were talking about death, especially for the inequality issue. Before I didn't understand why they talked about death? But after I t...

I appreciate Tom mentioned social policy and everyone's reply that made this question clearer! Chinese medicine says about 5,000 years ago, everyone l...

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Good point! In this case, I'd think the 'Life <-> Death' inequality may be the most fundamental inequality that we need to treat than any other inequa...

Good ideas! Please help check if this classic allegory is inspiring for your question? There was a hunchback named Su. His jaws touched his navel. His...

Good question! Inequality is a thinking issue. It's about how people see the world. Will the focus on social policy block out the time for people to p...

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Z?ngjiào is a translation word for foreign culture entered China. But it means : teaching from ancestors. still different from the English meaning of ...

btw, Chinese authentic civilization has no 'religion' concept or word in language, as western culture. Things that were taught on the silk road at lea...

Good questions! If you are a philosophy teacher who teaches dealing with 'Famous <-> Anonymous' inequality, what will you do to teach it? A big issue ...

Yes! Why not?

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Inequality as a philosophy topic has its history background. 3,000 years ago, silk road trading was already very popular. But when the merchants passe...

Good point! Will an ethical system create more inequality, more distinction on correct <-> wrong? Adam and Eve ate the Apple, so they know the 'Good &...