EAS100Y1 Lecture Notes - Shangdi, Human Nature, Wu Wei
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Metaphysics - a traditional branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world. Preternatural - phenomena presumed to have rational explanations that are unknown. Qing corrected everything, encyclopedias and dictionaries; there were some in han. Dao - reality, heaven - natural world, man - who lives within the natural world inside the reality used by confucians and taoist: means diff. things in daoism: means ultimate reality. What is ultimate reality? it"s not one single thing, it"s opposites, neutral pairs; metaphysical, existence of everything. Means method; the way in which you as an individual man can be perfect like heaven in confucian thought, heaven is higher than dao; one is god one is a realm where the god exists. Di, shangdi is stopped being used during the middle zhou dynasty and replaced with heaven heaven is the place you go when you die, refers to the natural world, the universe hierarchy: men in the middle.
