PHIL-202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tao Te Ching, Junzi, Taoism
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Metaphysical realism [141]: seem to support a belief in the dao. 1. mindindependent reality: the world exists external to our thoughts and beliefs. 2. truth as correspondence: traditionally referred to the way the world is and the way we speak about it or believe it to be. Tao te ching: page 68 part of the way of the dao is simplicity, receding, diminishing. As we multiply the colors and notes that we see and hear our eyes and ears are not as receptive to the original interest. Complex desires take away from finding the dao. It is not that desire is bad but desire ruling over the dao is bad. The sage is for the belly not for the eye: the desires of the stomach are necessary for life/sustenance versus the eye others (ie material jealousy) desire more (learned desire) Passage 4: the dao as yin (receding, passive) The ancestor of the myriad of creatures: created all cretues.
