Outside the Box: LLMs, Confucius and the Circular Trap of Western Individualism

Outside the Box: LLMs, Confucius and the Circular Trap of Western Individualism

“In a very interesting and thoughtful article published on Aeon, Sam Dresser recommends studying Confucius as a cure for the manifest evils brought about in the West by a worldview that has focused exclusively on individualism. Admitting that individualism as an idea is so deeply implanted in the Western mindset that it cannot be simply replaced, he cites several recent books by Western authors that ‘use ideas from ancient Chinese philosophers s…