Word: confucius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What this means, in essence, is that a commitment to love in worldly life cannot be separated from faith in Christ, who demanded that commitment. One argument against trying to build Christianity on moral action alone is that Jesus' teachings, unlike those of, say, Confucius, make sense only when understood as counsels of perfection in obedience to God rather than as workable guidelines of behavior. The Rev. David H. C. Read, pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, points out that in facing many problems of life the behavior of the Christian and the humanist might well...
Analects of Confucius? Maxims...
Since he is now 84, the title of this book might suggest that Eastman has finally turned to a contemplative study of morality. Not so. In writing these painfully simplistic essays on the lives of Buddha, Confucius, Moses, Socrates, Plato, Mohammed and Jesus, Eastman plainly still sees himself as an eternal Peck's Bad Boy gleefully provoking shrieks of outrage and accusations of heresy from the Yahoos. Mohammed, for example, was a "neurotic and savagely cruel old man," and Moses established a dictatorship "that for absolute control and bloody-handed cruelty has few rivals in history...
...profoundly reactionary answer to the megamachine is to throw a monkey wrench into it and send it down a time tunnel. Go back to Benedictine monasteries, where work was a "byword for zealous efficiency and formal perfection." Discover new prophets of "modest, humane disposition," like Jesus and Confucius. Establish new routines, such as the Hebrew Sabbath that "found a way of obstructing the megamachine and challenging its inflated claims." Abandon the modern constitutional equivalents of ancient kingships and revert to Neolithic culture. In other words, Mumford would perfect man with weaving, pottery and thatched-village anarchy...
...enthusiastic but calm state of mind and intense but orderly work," in Great Britain, sassy teenagers have taken to Maothing retorts to teachers who rebuke them, and Carnaby Street regulars have begun wearing $22.40 Red Guard uniforms; in Manhattan, Mao sayings are briefly as popular as old Confucius-say. But their days as a cocktail-party drop are numbered. For as London's Sun Columnist Henry Fielding noted: "In their cunning way, the Chinese are now using it instead of their water torture; they are just boring people to death...