Those of us who are specialists on Chinese philosophy are particularly aware of Kant’s disdain for Confucius: ‘ Philosophy is not to b [...] … Their teacher Confucius teaches in his writings nothing outside a moral doctrine designed for the princes … and offers examples of former Chinese princes.
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Why the Western philosophical canon is xenophobic and racist | Aeon Essays education of servants, ie, they can be trained.’ 4. ‘The [Indigenous] American people are uneducable; for they lack affect and passion. They are not amorous, and so are not fertile. They speak hardly at all, … care for nothing and are lazy.’ <span>Those of us who are specialists on Chinese philosophy are particularly aware of Kant’s disdain for Confucius: ‘Philosophy is not to be found in the whole Orient. … Their teacher Confucius teaches in his writings nothing outside a moral doctrine designed for the princes … and offers examples of former Chinese princes. … But a concept of virtue and morality never entered the heads of the Chinese.’ Kant is easily one of the four or five most influential philosophers in the Western tradition. He asserte Summary
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