PHIL 3920 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Taoism, Consequentialism, Junzi
24 Mar 2017
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The dao is an explicit human construction. Value of the rituals is social utility, rule consequentialism. Contra daoist beliefs human nature is neutral. We"re just a tiny part of nature , and thus neutral. Parallel to mozi (as he believes that the base state (also known as, the. He makes his eyes not want to see what is not right . This stuff doesn"t matter to the gentlemen ( junzi ); he only values propriety, ritual, etc . He"s worried that people will be obsessed with sensory things. He"s worried that the joy will be taken out of hand. He"s responding to mozi, saying we can"t get rid of music, and that we should try and control it: music in moderation. Xunzi doesn"t want you to enjoy music beyond what"s prescribed of ritual.
