Washington Post,Nov.15, 2008 page A18: "China and Japan have promised stimulus programs to help world financial crisis" as an editorial. Both nations have been under the influence of Confucianism. "Political and Economic Philosophy of Mencius" is listed at www.loc.gov(Library of Congress online catalog)
On page A3: President-Elect Obama has chosen Beliveau, a lawyer as the Director of Inauguration on Jan.20, 2009. Beliveau is a prominent Maine attorney and is a graduate of Georgetown Law School. The work on Confucianism is also available online at Georgetown University Library online catalog.
On page B7: Spirit of Compassion - All the great sages insist that compassion is the chief duty. The first person to do so was Confucius, who, 500+ years before Christ, was the first to formulate the Golden Rule: "Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you." It was the central thread that ran through all his teaching and should be practiced all day and every day. Every single faith has evolved its own version of the Golden Rule, which requires us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and refuse under any circumstance whatsoever to inflict that pain on anybody else. I am a disciple of Confucius and Mencius since I was a student in China and I believe that such teaching would be relevant to solve the financial crisis in terms of economics with ethics and morality.
Washington Post,Sunday,Nov.16,08 page N2: Confucius said: "What you know, you know,What you don't know, you don't know,This is true wisdom." Professor John K. Galbraith said: "There are those who don't know and those who don't know they don't know." That is wisdom as well. Let us look at the evidence in the world today and tomorrow apropos of the REAL ECONOMICS for folks on earth.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao, a lifelong student of economic philosophy including the moral aphorism of Adam Smith and Confucius/Mencius.
Sunday, Nov. 16,2008 at 7.11 a.m. in Maryland, USA
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