PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Taoism, Wu Wei, Tao Te Ching
15 Mar 2014
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Laozi - founder of philosophical daoism. hagiographical, probably didn"t exist. born when he was eighty as an old man. mother carried him eighty years. Two different types of dao, philosophic and religious. "the way", physical way, like a path. "way of proper conduct", more of a moral meaning. "the way things are", metaphysical meaning. the metaphysical way is most prominent in the daodejing. You must read the japanese tradition chapter before class on tuesday. also, the teacher evaluations are that day. Key figure. like the paul of daoism. Whimsicla playful writer, unlike the daodejing which is abstract poetry. His stories are collected into an eponymous text, zhuangzi. Divided into three parts: seven inner chapters (for sure written by zhuangzi, outter chapters, miscellaneous these are commentaries by followers of zhuangzi. differences in philosophy. The dao - the one, the way. The beliefs in contemporary texts are syncretic. daoism was flexible and adapted to historical circumstances.
