and Confucius... I'd like to meet him and ask him a lot of questions if I
could go back in time (in a time-machine say...) in his life time, he
was not that successful... the warring warlords didn't listen to him at
all... all he had was a large group of students (70 or so)... his
sayings, I guess, like the sayings of many great philosophers perhaps,
cannot be easily understood out of context (his historical, political,
economic and sociocultural context)... including his patriarchical sayings...
I guess...
Not to mention therewere many different "constructions" of his teachings
in the hands of different emperors in Chinese history...
Angel