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Derek Lomas's avatar

I appreciated this. Where can I find examples of rituals?

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Su Wang's avatar

The way lǐ/rituals are described here made me think of Machiavelli’s notion of virtù. Both took a word that had been central to their predecessors and secretly tweaks its meaning to allow for more adaptations in a changing society.

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