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The issue isn't that he doesn't know enough about Chinese philosophy. Hell, the video isn't even really about philosophy, it's more like history from a guy who's not interested in challenging his audience's perspective on things. It basically focuses on telling Confucius's story and to the degree video guy touches on what the guy actually thought, he immediately addresses all these questions with these boring boilerplate answers you'd expect from a modern "woke" guy brought up in the current society. He doesn't ask any questions that might make the viewer think critically about what's being presented. For example, why is ritual so important? Where does that notion come from fundamentally? He just says he doesn't get it cuz he's modern and leaves it at that, but can he really shrug that off so easily? Shouldn't that kind of thing be exactly the kind of question he should try to answer as a philosopher?
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The issue isn't that he doesn't know enough about Chinese philosophy. Hell, the video isn't even really about philosophy, it's more like history from a guy who's not interested in challenging his audience's perspective on things. It basically focuses on telling Confucius's story and to the degree video guy touches on what the guy actually thought, he immediately addresses all these questions with these boring boilerplate answers you'd expect from a modern "woke" guy brought up in the current society. He doesn't ask any questions that might make the viewer think critically about what's being presented. For example, why is ritual so important? Where does that notion come from fundamentally? He just says he doesn't get it cuz he's modern and leaves it at that, but can he really shrug that off so easily? Shouldn't that kind of thing be exactly the kind of question he should try to answer as a philosopher?