RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tao Te Ching, Laozi, Zhou Dynasty

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 253
• Professor: Lisa M.Blake, Jingjing Li

Document Summary

(1) cultivation or suppression of natural will. Determinism of the heaven vs voluntarism of free will. Your natural desire vs your moral obligation. (2) traditionalism (prioritizing the past) vs social darwinism (stressing evolution in the future) (4) the importance of confucianism in history. Until han dynasty elevated confucianism to state ideology. Contemporary china good , historical tradition. Peoples republic of china old tradition, not seen as very important. Zhuangzi warring states period ( 369 bce) Lao zi rides the ox back wards because reversal is the movement of dao. Because he decided that he cant handle the political corruption at eastern. Today i saw laozi, he is the real dragon respect laozi. Confucianism and daoism are not mutually exclusive. Dark learning (xuan xue) 200ce to early 300 ce \ In early han (202-141 bce) let the subjects rest. The rise of dark learning among specialist. Tan (618-907 ce) taoism as the state religion. Fa lun gong & yi guan dao.