Wednesday, November 16, 2011

How does Confucius relate to this quote?

"People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does”





I would like to know his philosophical interests in it. How does he relate, and stand by this quote even though he was not the one who said this?|||well, since Confucius's philosophy was basically a set of ethics instead of like religious beliefs and it stressed respect and obedience, the first part of the quote "People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do;" relates and stands by the quote because people know that they should respect and obey and they do, as for the second part "but what they don't know is what what they do does” relates because when people are so focused on obeying they don't see the affect of their actions, like for example, in ancient china there were many arranged marriages, the children obey and get married but they don't know that what they do causes them unhappiness because they're marrying some stranger until its too late


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