Travis
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Colin posted:
>
>> http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/13/opinion/edzizek.php
>>
>> Atheism is a legacy worth fighting for
>>
>> Slavoj Zizek
>
> <snip>
>
>> What makes modern Europe unique is that it is the first and only
>> civilization in which atheism is a fully legitimate option, not an
>> obstacle to any public post.
>
>
>
> I thought that civil service examination, in which candidates'
> religion did not matter, was invented by the Chinese (cf. "The
> Traditional Chinese Examination System," Montgomery County Public
> Schools Social Studies Teacher Resources, <http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/
> curriculum/socialstd/resources/pcexam.html>; "Chinese Examination
> System," The Columbia Encyclopedia, <http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/
> Chines-exa.html>, Ichisada Miyazaki, China's Examination Hell: The
> Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China, <http://
> yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300026390>), as a way to
> limit the power of provincial nobles.
>
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi
> <http://montages.blogspot.com>
> <http://monthlyreview.org>
> <http://mrzine.org>
>
>
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