RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Nations Of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Document Summary
Great concern for lineage, idea that who i am comes from somewhere from my parents who emerged from someone else. Great interest in identifying and appreciating every element on that chain of being: great interest in the idea of harmony and order. The term tao is one of the broadest and the most complex terms within chinese culture, has great many meanings. The most literal sense of thinking is that it means way, the way things work and happen, the particular pattern and movement but it also has bigger and broader meanings. Idea is that creation is a sort of mystery and the tao itself is the source of all this mystery. Tao as the source, mother, origin of creation. The ideal in chinese history ahs always been to ahieve a harmoniously functioning empire under the leadership of one figure.
