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"The author’s wide-ranging and richly documented analysis leads him to propose a contextualization of the Seven Sages by including the surrounding narratives of multi-text manuscript compilations (e.g. MS. Gießen 104) in the interpretive... more
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      Reception StudiesMedieval German LiteratureAncient NovelManuscript Studies
Here I deferentially give a reading of some aspects of Steven Angle's book.
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      Confucian PhilosophySages and SagehoodNeoconfucianism
More than two thousand years have passed in Europe since Plato and the triumph of the philosophers over the sages. Not even Jesus Christ himself dared to call himself a sage; he could not! Highest wisdom was now with God. In the New... more
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      PhilosophyLanguages and LinguisticsWisdomSchopenhauer
In this essay, Dr. Thorsten J. Pattberg discusses the difference between sages and philosophers and saints. He compares the sage cultures of the East with the philosopher culture of the West, and calls Jesus Christ 'the last sage of... more
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      Comparative ReligionChinese PhilosophyChinaOccidentalism