Karunungan Book Review
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The book Karunungan, is consists of different articles written by different people who has a graeter and deeper studies Philosophy and society. This book focus on the matter of religion, God, modern issues in the society and how each of this aspect will be correlated to one another.
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KongZi or Confucius has always been significant not only in Chinese Philosophy but in the universal belief of every philosophical context. He has contributed several of his teachings that remained to be timeless despite the fact that the world has reached the most advance system they could afford. We are now living in the post-modern era and as also discussed in the book, it has been said that modernization has created an effect on Asian values both advantageous and otherwise. This article presents a question that gave me a chance to think and reflect. If Confucius' teachings still have significance on the post-modern era? Definitely, yes for as I have said, his teachings remain to be timeless and everlasting. Though hundred years had passed and many things had changed, his teaching remains to be very applicable in this day and age. Now let me discuss his teachings very briefly...