{"id":155780,"date":"2026-08-07T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155780"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:30:07","slug":"the-world-that-made-confucius-and-the-china-he-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155780","title":{"rendered":"The world that made Confucius \u2013 and the China he made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning Post\u201cPhilosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.\u201d This famous 11th thesis from Karl Marx\u2019s Theses on Feuerbach is engraved on his tombstone in Highgate Cemetery in London.<br \/>\nIt was meant to be a refutation of another famous saying, by G.W.F. Hegel: \u201cThe owl of Minerva takes flight only when darkness falls.\u201d<br \/>\nThis poetic but enigmatic remark is from the Philosophy of Right. It means understanding always arrives too late; philosophy can only teach&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3363031\/world-made-confucius-and-china-he-made?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning Post\u201cPhilosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.\u201d This famous 11th thesis from Karl Marx\u2019s Theses&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}