I offer here the most definitive, authoritative sources of the West on your topic, and my best interpretation of them, which will no doubt be disputed here. — unenlightened
What is the motivation for westerners to do equality?
I think the most basic motivation for Taiwanese and Chinese to do equality is for health. — YiRu Li
If people do inequality things or abusing others, we'll think that person will be short life or unhealthy. — YiRu Li
Is your question how to be the same in a world of difference? — tim wood
I think so!
In Zhuang Zi, it is translated to 'The Identity of Contraries'.
But it's very hard to understand sometimes. — YiRu Li
Amor Fati, and Yea Saying?... From Nietzsche's Joyful Wisdom Aphorism 276:
"I have wished for myself today, and what thought first crossed my mind this year, a thought which ought to be the basis, the pledge and the sweetening of all my future life! I want more and more to perceive the necessary characters in things as the beautiful: I shall thus be one of those who beautify things. Amor fati: let that henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse the accusers. Looking aside, let that be my sole negation! And all in all, to sum up: I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!" — Vaskane
This will work if we stop listening to the publicity and marketing. — L'éléphant
That is interesting, Nietzsche says those who share their secrets are no longer in love with their knowledge. — Vaskane
I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!" — Vaskane
To Nietzsche that which annihilates contradictories, is the "redemption" a person feels when they are performing their "art." By that I mean, like a martial artist practices until their mind and body are like one, they do not have to think about their movements, the martial practitioner has taken their trade to the level of an art. Same goes with an author, or a computer engineer, a mathematician, a skateboarder, a chef. But for Nietzsche one does not want these contradictories to disappear fully, they are responsible for creating the tension, the suffering, in which one experiences to be motivated to overcome and achieve. — Vaskane
What are you referring to? — Tom Storm
I don't see how that works. — Vera Mont
his favorite philosopher was, he replied (after a bit of thought), Jesus Christ. — jgill
Equality is like the concept of perfection, totally unrealistic, but an ideal mark to shoot for, one which in fact will never be reached. — boagie
And the King shall answer and say unto them, ‘Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me — Matthew 25:40
**Existence:**
Nothing on Earth existed in the past, and nothing will persist in the future.
Throughout time, only the universe or heaven endures.
Consequently, everything on Earth shares the same transitory nature. — YiRu Li
When viewed from outer space, everything on Earth appears minute.
Similarly, considering the expansive timeframe from the beginning of the universe until now, everything on Earth virtually exists within an infinitesimally small span.
In this context, everything on Earth is alike, as each entity is extremely small or exists for an exceedingly brief period. — YiRu Li
It's Amazing you can see these logics from poor people's view. — YiRu Li
As I said, abstracts don’t work for me. Maybe you could demonstrate? — Tom Storm
There are good inequalities and bad inequalities. A good inequality is a due inequality. A bad inequality is a condition where there is privation of a due equality. In this case we have to introduce equality to face the inequality. — IP060903
Is it 'Plato's Theory of Forms'?
It seems peculiar; essential to the world, yet it takes us a considerable amount of time to comprehend. — YiRu Li
I think it is empathy. I suspect humans, as a social species, are hard wired for empathy which is likely foundational to morality and human rights. I — Tom Storm
Perhaps look into which inequalities are manufactured and can be reversed rather than the ones that simply are inherent within ourselves? — Vaskane
That seems to be an excellent frame — Tom Storm
A moral equality is stipulated. — unenlightened
For me an example of 'this process' was my learning what a function is in math - it took a while. — tim wood
A moral equality is stipulated.
— unenlightened
Authentic Chinese civilization has never stipulated the concept of equality or morality; it is referred to as 'Tao.'
'Tao' could be translated as 'The Way', 'Science', 'Key Point', '20/80 Principle', or 'Enlightenment Thinking'. or even 'Holy spirit'. — YiRu Li
If it's not 'Plato's Theory of Forms'?
Maybe you resonate with the concept of 'Tao'? — YiRu Li
If a 'giver' acknowledges that poor people also 'belong to' the category of humans, they can feel empathy or compassion towards them.
Alternatively, they may consider the possibility that one day they themselves could face financial struggles. — YiRu Li
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