30 November 2015
A few words on usury
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Cross-posted from Christian Democracy Magazine : It’s difficult to think of an economic activity more ubiquitous under capitalism than the...
29 November 2015
Classical Confucianism and the self-institution dialectic
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One of the favourite passages of the neo-Confucians who place their penultimate concern in issues of personal pietistic self-cultivation,...
28 November 2015
Confucius on education ‘reform’
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From Xueji 《學記》 in the Book of Rites : 今之教者,呻其占曅,多其訊,言及于數,進而不顧其安,使人不由其誠,教人不盡其材;其施之也悖,其求之也佛。夫然,故隱其學而疾其師,苦其難而不知其益也,雖終其業,其去之必速。教之不刑,其此之由乎! ...
23 November 2015
Michael Schuman on Confucian anti-capitalism
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Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒 This Salon article, an excerpt from Michael Schuman’s book Confucius: And the World He Created is from eight months a...
19 November 2015
Remembering Holy Father Filaret of Moscow
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When I was chrismated into the Orthodox Church, one of the gifts given to me by the man who welcomed me into the Church, Fr. Sergiy, was a...
16 November 2015
Elite education and the Slavophil dilemma
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I was brought to mind of this question whilst reading the recent book on contemporary Confucianism, The Renaissance of Confucianism in Conte...
14 November 2015
Terrorism, outrage, selective memory and uncomfortable questions
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Two weeks ago, on the 31st of October, 224 passengers – Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian – on a Russian Airbus, Metrojet flight 9268, were ...
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