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ReligionsThe distinction between philosophical Daoism and religious Daoism is widely influential yet highly controversial. The current popular empirical methods often overlook the vicissitude of the concepts underlying the reception history of this distinction ...
Jing Tan, Xiangfei Bao
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Religions, 2023 Two long-standing and fiercely debated issues remain central to contemporary studies on Chinese philosophy. The first concerns whether there was an early tradition of metaphysics, and the second concerns whether there was an early tradition of Daoism ...
Thomas Michael
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Comparative Philosophy: An International Journal of Constructive Engagement of Distinct Approaches toward World Philosophy, 2011 Classical philosophical Daoism as it is expressed in the Dao-De-Jing and the Zhuang-Zi is often interpreted as lacking a capacity for critique and resistance. Since these capacities are taken to be central components of Enlightenment reason and action, it would follow that Daoism is incompatible with Enlightenment.
Wenning, Mario
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Weber’s Daoism: A failure of orthodoxy
Journal of Classical Sociology, 2014 The paper fills a gap in the discussion of The Religion of China by focusing on Weber’s treatment of Daoism. First, it presents an examination of Weber’s use of sources in his construction of Daoism and his location of mysticism and religion in the early
Jack Barbalet
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Constructing an aesthetic discourse: Aesthetic education where Daoism meets postmodernism
Education Inquiry, 2022 Despite the prevalence of aesthetic education as one of the main developmental objectives in curricular worldwide, the mainstream philosophical discourse on its definition is predominately framed by western philosophy due to a paucity of cross-cultural ...
Ka Lee Carrie Ho
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Journal of Daoist Studies, 2015 This paper examines the creation of Daoism in its earliest, pre-Eastern Han period. After an examination of the critical terms “scholar/master” ( zi 子) and “author/school” ( jia 家), I argue that, given the paucity of evidence, Sima Tan and Liu Xin should be credited with creating this tradition.
Fischer, Paul
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, 2017 Book 2 discusses what the author believes to be the errors of Daoism and other errors that are ostensibly similar to the beliefs of what this text describes as, the true way.
Anh Q. Tran
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THE PHENOMENON OF DAOISM IN CHINESE CIVILIZATION
CREATIVITY STUDIES, 2009 In this article Daoism is analyzed in the context of Chinese culture. It is demonstrated how the ideas of Daoism were shaped and matured in the Chinese civilization and how they reflect the peculiarities of the civilization of Eastern Asia and China. The author revives the genealogy and authorship of the main works of the Daoists (Daodejing, Zhuangzi ...
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Learning from Laotzi: Daoism and Sustainability
Landscape Review, 2004 Tao is the source of ten thousand things ... The ten thousand things carry yin and embrace yang. They achieve harmony by combining these forces ... The ten thousand things are born of being. Being is born of not being.
Nancy Volkman
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Religions, 2023 The relationship between secularity or modernity and religious belief choices is a hot topic of academic concern. However, there has been scarce attention from the academic community regarding the religious belief choices and driving factors of China’s ...
Li Chen, Sheng Zeng, Zaizhen Tian
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