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Single Idea 7475
[filed under theme 29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 1. Confucianism
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Full Idea
Confucius was deeply religious in a traditional sense, showing reverence towards heaven and an omnipresent spiritual world, but he was cool towards the supernatural, and does not seem to have believed in either a personal god or an afterlife.
Gist of Idea
Confucius revered the spiritual world, but not the supernatural, or a personal god, or the afterlife
Source
Peter Watson (Ideas [2005], Ch.05)
Book Ref
Watson,Peter: 'Ideas: from fire to Freud' [Phoenix 2006], p.161
A Reaction
The implication is that the spiritual world was very remote from us, and beyond communication. Sounds like deism.
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from Peter Watson
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20649
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20650
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The Uncertainty Principle implies that cause and effect can't be measured
[Watson]
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20651
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The shape of molecules is important, as well as the atoms and their bonds
[Watson]
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20652
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In 1828 the animal substance urea was manufactured from inorganic ingredients
[Watson]
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20654
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Only four particles are needed for matter: up and down quark, electron, electron-neutrino
[Watson]
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20655
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Humans have been hunter-gatherers for 99.5% of their existence
[Watson]
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20656
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Traditional ideas of the mind were weakened in the 1950s by mind-influencing drugs
[Watson]
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20657
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There are 23 core brain functions, with known circuit, transmitters, genes and behaviour
[Watson]
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20658
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Information is physical, and living can be seen as replicating and preserving information
[Watson]
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20661
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Electrons rotate in hyrogen atoms 10^13 times per second
[Watson]
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20647
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Quantum theory explains why nature is made up of units, such as elements
[Watson]
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7461
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The three key ideas are the soul, Europe, and the experiment
[Watson]
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7462
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DNA mutation suggests humans and chimpanzees diverged 6.6 million years ago
[Watson]
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7463
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The three basic ingredients of religion are: the soul, seers or priests, and ritual
[Watson]
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7464
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The big idea: imitation, the soul, experiments, God, heliocentric universe, evolution?
[Watson]
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7465
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Babylonian thinking used analogy, rather than deduction or induction
[Watson]
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7466
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Mesopotamian numbers applied to specific things, and then became abstract
[Watson]
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7475
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Confucius revered the spiritual world, but not the supernatural, or a personal god, or the afterlife
[Watson]
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7468
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In ancient Athens the souls of the dead are received by the 'upper air'
[Watson]
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7470
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During the rise of civilizations, the main gods changed from female to male
[Watson]
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7476
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Taoism aims at freedom from the world, the body, the mind, and nature
[Watson]
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7474
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Hinduism has no founder, or prophet, or creed, or ecclesiastical structure
[Watson]
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7471
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The Gathas (hymns) of Zoroastrianism date from about 1000 BCE
[Watson]
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7473
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Zoroaster conceived the afterlife, judgement, heaven and hell, and the devil
[Watson]
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7477
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Modern democracy is actually elective oligarchy
[Watson]
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7478
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Greek philosophers invented the concept of 'nature' as their special subject
[Watson]
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7481
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The Israelites may have asserted the uniqueness of Yahweh to justify land claims
[Watson]
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7483
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Paul's early writings mention few striking episodes from Jesus' life
[Watson]
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7479
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Modern Judaism became stabilised in 200 CE
[Watson]
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7480
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Monotheism was a uniquely Israelite creation within the Middle East
[Watson]
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7484
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Jesus never intended to start a new religion
[Watson]
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7490
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Because of Darwin, wisdom as a definite attainable state has faded
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