PHILOS 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Meddle
21 Nov 2017
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Things should be in line with their natures. And earth and heaven just endure and are long-lasti(cid:374)g (cid:374)atu(cid:396)ally. What then is involved in the following of the dao? (what does the sage do?) Instead, just let it happen and follow your intuition: chapter 56 more on intuitive knowledge, enigmatic unity, the dao is mysterious, as is its de. It can"t be learned by traditional: chapter 51 it is (cid:374)atu(cid:396)al to follo(cid:449) the way. Its i(cid:374)tuiti(cid:448)e: does(cid:374)"t (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)e (cid:373)eddli(cid:374)g means: enigmatic virtue, chapter 81 against the rectification of names. Daoists are not concerned with making language proper, refined words don"t get any closer to the world because reality isn"t well behaved like words are. Only lead to confusion: the dualistic nature of reality: what you recognize when you follow nature, yin and yang, the chinese name for two complimentary but opposite forces in the universe that are in constant interplay.
