Religious Studies 1023E Lecture 3: Lecture 3 - Taoism

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Taoism 3 y similarities to confucianism: both value harmony (yin and yang, both somewhat political (tao te ching) ways rulers/sages should act: warring states period. both deal with the problem (tao te ching doesn t address it specifically: methods are different. confucius you are born an animal and need to develop your humanity through education and learning. taoists think that everything you need happens naturally, knowledge is twisting people out of shape, heart of artificiality: confucius utopian view with a virtuous king who sets example for peasants. know very little about him (4-5 century bce), may have derived from the shang people. given name is chuang chou, tzu means master : text has 33 chapters. composite text, written by many authours y 17 inner chapters, 15 outer chapters, 11 misc. chapters: people who make appearances. han fei tzu y legalists, ran counter to mencius.

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