Word: confucians
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...economic toll has been accompanied by social tragedy. South Koreans, who once adhered to the Confucian nostrum of assiduous saving, are now struggling to cope with harassment by creditors and the shame of personal bankruptcy. Newspapers have reported a rash of suicides, violent crime, kidnappings and prostitution attributed to overborrowing. In September, a deep-in-hock housewife leaped to her death from a ninth-floor apartment, taking her 13-year-old daughter with her. In August, two young women with heavy credit-card bills killed themselves by drinking a cocktail of alcohol and poison. "I often speak to debtors...
...full of taboo subjects: sex, religion, sex, suicide and sex. Talk radio allows the shy and curious alike to discuss issues they would never dare broach even with their closest friends. Ye Sha hosts a late-night radio show in Shanghai, a city where the neon present collides with Confucian tradition. These days, many of her calls are from wives and mistresses on either side of the extramarital divide. With fewer neighborhood spies to keep track of a person's movements, such illicit relationships are burgeoning, but there's little chance to discuss these forbidden affairs except on programs like...
...being ostracized. In China, required reading for every medical student is On the Absolute Sincerity of Great Physicians, a 1,400-year-old treatise by Sun Simiao that Hippocrates would appreciate. But traditional ethical tracts never addressed the greater role that doctors play as guardians of public health. Confucian Emperors were suspicious of physicians; books published in the Song dynasty encouraged self-diagnosis among citizens. This contrasts with the evolution of Western medical ethics, which stemmed from the pragmatic realization among 18th century European powers that strong armies and workforces depended on good public health, necessitating standard qualifications for doctors...
...subject matter. Complaints about large courses because they are impersonal are much less bitter than complaints because students were unable to get into them. And what is wrong with Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice” being so much larger than Moral Reasoning 40: “Confucian Humanism”? The right response to the size of Justice is not to be embarrassed, but to be proud, and to hire more Sandels and to provide some incentives for others to be as good at teaching and as appealing in their choice of subject matter. Strangely, the curriculum...
...been looking elsewhere for new ideas for centuries. Unlike China's rulers, who believed themselves to be the center of the world and exacted tribute from the barbarians around their empire, the Japanese turned without compunction to the Asian mainland for everything from their writing system to their Confucian values...