tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post5612316819108672871..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: Why No Empires after Rome?Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-60006798793162919622013-10-13T09:53:34.404-04:002013-10-13T09:53:34.404-04:00I too have long thought this was a very striking c...I too have long thought this was a very striking contrast, and a fascinating and important problem. Part of the answer would seem to me to lie with a peculiar resilience that Confucianism has. I'm puzzled as to what that resilience is about, but it seems to be there. Introductions to Confucianism, which is as far as I've been able to get, to me have difficulty conveying the real vitality or attraction it must have had to have had so much staying power.<br /><br />One aspect I've noticed lately--I'm teaching world history now--is that Confucianism does seem aimed in part at counteracting a fissiparous kin-based morality that was also present in China, but which has left very few written records, at least none that make it into the introductory materials that are all I've had time to read.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08993570411881726772noreply@blogger.com