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Confucius thought

Mao Shi and Xi Shi are lovely beauties, but the birds will fly away and the fish will sink to the bottom of the water. It can be seen that the human aesthetic standards cannot be recognized by the birds and fish; In the gorgeous house, the muddy people have to live in the mud while the ape monkeys like to live in the woods. It can be seen that people's living needs cannot be recognized by the animal community. By analogy, how can one say that generalized morality is the universal law of heaven and earth? It criticizes Confucianism to exaggerate the role of "man," thus forming the division between "the Heaven" and "humanity." Read more