So I recently finished reading a portion of The Analects, and have started rereading The History of the Peloponnesian War. The latter book I think I’ve tried to read like four times, the first time when I was a teenager, and I’ve never really succeeded.

But what I found interesting from the two books is how they think about law and morality. In The Analects, it is pretty clear that Confucius does not think that a litigious society is a moral society. A society which is more litigious is one where people no longer understand what is right and moral, and so people use the law as a beating stick where the strong prevail over the weak.

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