Confucius (or, What to Do When Elites Break The Rules) | Philosophy Tube

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MUSIC

[PhilosophyTube]

I tried to make a nonpolitical video about Chinese philosophy and Confucius was like "Nah dog"

[olefredrikskjegstad]

"... and then he died"

This is a very underrated joke that slips by unless you know a little Chinese history. Qin Shi Huang sought immortality, and ended up ingesting several "immortality elixirs" with ingredients like mercury in them, which modern scholars theorize may very likely have cut his life short. F in chat indeed.

[SemiIocon]

Nobody thinks of their own society as having a lot of rituals, because when you grow up in it, they are second nature to you.

[sasharenee]

The Ji Family's been awfully quiet since this dropped

[zarathustracave]

Translating Chinese to English can have hilarious consequences. When I was in Beijing I kept seeing adverts with a helpful English translation that read "delicious fungus of milk" and I thought, "mmm that doesn't sound very nice". Later on I realised they were on about yogurt.

[patriciamcgeorge]

"The Chinese never had a secular enlightenment, which is why we need to teach them about the greatest Englishman of all time, Jesus"

[DavidCruickshank]

"If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?" Confucius you sweet summer child.

[hwsmart]

"Fetch me my Lara Croft costume!"
Doesn't dress up as Lara Croft.

I'm disappointed in you, Ollie.

[audreyzhang]

Kudos to all the old comments calling Abigail a business lesbian lmao

[thatcurator]

Dear Philosophy Tube,
You claimed you wouldn't make a callout video, yet this video is clearly a Ji Family callout video.
Curious.

[Porcuponic]

If you say “fetch me my Lara Croft costume” in a philosophy tube video and don’t follow through...

[itsrainbow]

All of the business lesbian comments aged like fine wine and i am here for it

[ryanadams]

Little bummed Ollie didn’t jump into the scene in a Lara Croft costume.

[velvet]

How do you warn someone that you're gonna call them a racist in Parliament?

"Hey Boris, just letting you know dude, I'm about to call you a racist in like 10mins or so. We cool?"

[yunikage]

the stolen dictionary gag is funnier than it has any right to be

[connorh]

The Master said:

"The Gentleman is easy of mind while the small man is full of anxiety."

"The Gentleman understands what is moral; The small man understands what is profitable."


I said:


"The man who knows what is moral but is full of anxiety is medium sized."

[monageeuk]

Olly: "I don't really think of our society as having a lot of rituals like that"
Me, an autistic: *hysteric laughter but also crying*

[cloudfrost]

I went to an Oxford open day for philosophy.

Professor: *talking about the wide variety of philosophy you can study at Oxford*
Chinese student: What about Confucius and Chinese philosophy?
Professor: We don’t do that here.

He said something about Eastern philosophy not being analytical, and closer to spiritualism than Western philosophy, but he sounded almost exactly like the historian character.

[asdffjsdjasd]

The lack of Eastern thought in Western philosophy courses is a serious disservice to students. I took a class in college on the philosophy of science and we skipped from ancient Greece up to the Renaissance. Our professor briefly mentioned that the center of learning shifted to the middle east during the middle ages but we didn't learn the name of a single middle eastern thinker and anything farther east wasn't even mentioned.

[XerxesTexasToast]

Abby: These characters mean "electric" and "brain"
Me: Oh so a computer?
Abby: SMART FLOWING THINKING ELECTRIC MEAT