Philosophy Bites

Jing Hu on Songzi on Insults and Shame

July 21, 2026·17 min
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The Chinese philosopher Songzi (382 BCE – 305 BCE) maintained that the appropriate response to insults was indifference, not aggression. Jing Hu, a philosopher at Concordia University, Montreal puts his thinking about insults and about the related concept of shame in context, and explains his ideas about the ethics of interpersonal relations.  This episode was supported by the Ideas Workshop, part of the Open Society Foundations

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