CHIN 120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Human Nature, Conflicting Emotions, Statutory Law
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We don"t really know, its ambiguous: indivisible, indescribable, immaterial force or energy, all these are the force of what exists. Dao is everywhere: it"s the first principle that permeates the universe, it"s amorphous and inclusive, it"s a contrast of ritualistic, precise confucianism. Do your own thing: ideal of man with nature. Knowledge attained by intuition or illumination: similarities with confucianism. Emphasize letting things be, things will be okay, don"t interfere. During the zhou dynasty, 6th c. bc: spring autumn period. No, he can be a copulation of many people who have these ideas of daoism. Ideas found in the book classic of the way and power (laozi or daodejing) Dao is ineffable (incapable of being expressed in words: indescribable) dao can be everywhere. You can be low or high, be a part of a cloud, you can cause good and harm, etc. Most famous successor to laozi, zhuang zhou / zuangzi 369-286 bc: advocated the natural state: don"t interfere.
