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Originally Posted by Thingle
That's not necessarily a good thing. This "solid" is in fact "rigid" and by the time the West explored the abstract ideas of morality, China got left behind, apparently because the Chinese never bothered straying from the confucian paradigm due to their "practical" leaning.
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the Chinese never bothered straying from the confucian paradigm due to their "practical" leaning.
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See the straw man? It's not Confucius' fault, but the Chinese's. Confucius never gave himself the ultimate authority to forbid others from questioning, the ones governed did, because it benefits them. Confucian is not rigid, the governments were.
The problems within a Confucian society structure have already been being eliminated over time, but the basic principles and lessons of life he gave us remain. Dignity, honesty, loyalty, modesty... I fail to see how those moral guidelines impeding a society's advance. If anything, Japan and China could not have their high stands in nowadays global economy without Confucian.