The great debate.
The great debate.
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The great debate.
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legalism is the best of the three, but all are dogshit. Taoism is pure ooga-booga monkey tier
>the philosophies which nourished the greatest realm in the world historically eclipsed only by Rome at its height, are dogshit
Ok
the chinese are naturally an industrious and sturdy people. Taoism takes a practical chinaman and makes him eat tiger dicks and howl at the moon every month for his celestial ancestors. If they weren't made retarded by these stupid ideologies, the zhangs would be eating ET barbeque on alpha centauri right now.
Taoism is essentially Christianity before Jesus.
That's a very late application of Taoism, that came much later when it was mixed with Chinese folk religions. The Tangs saw Christianity as the "Luminous Religion" that is the continuation of the Tao.
>Taoism is essentially Christianity before Jesus.
Asian Logos actually
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos
Funny that you mention that, David Bentley Hart talked about how some Chinese translation of the Bible would translate the word to the tao. He himself argues the word should translate to the logos.
Confucianism during peacetime, Legalism during wartime.
Taoism doesn't work for average human beings, it's inherently a way of living that only suits those that seek shelter away from society.
>Confucianism
>be taoist monk
>live a life of seclusion away from the bustles of civilization.
>experiment with "herbs" to create the elixir of life and immortality.
>sell homeopathic medicine to unsuspecting townsfolk for a living.
pretty much any western ideology (including communism) > buddhism > legalism > confucianism > daoism
you realize most people who were confucians were also taoists? Chinese people are confucian during the week and taoists on the weekend. They don't contradict each other and Taoism has heavily influenced confucianism and neoconfucianism
Daoisim is pretty cool. Not for everybody though.
>Confucian dads during a famine be like
Give me a tl;dr of each of these
Daoism is the most confusing because it relies on an understanding of certain sinic words/pictograms sort of like the whole love-agape thing with the original translations of the bible. Also it's sort muddled with Buddhism because the two were kind of in conflict. 'Philosophical daosim' is the most pure version of daoism.
where muh mohism at.
Extinct
>confucianism
Do this because it's a virtuous thing to do. Also low taxes and regulations for some reason
>legalism
Do this because either the law or the monarch said you should.
>taoism
Just bee yourself
>Debate?
What's there to debate?
Except for autismal Taoist sects and Neoconfucians, the majority of average Chinese believed in all three. Confucianism handled the secular world of societal relationships, legalism got folded into Confucianism and is deployed when thinking in terms of law & politics, while Taoism handled the Metaphysical.
I'm going to ask this again, where can I get an accessible and intelligent rundown of Daoism? I've read the Dao, but naturally it's intentionally opaque. There has to be tradition of interpretation, philosophy, and theology out there somewhere that isn't all weird geomancy shit.
With Buddhism it's not this hard. You don't have to learn about by reading the pali canon straight as a beginner.
It kinda feels like a complete mumbo jumbo that's supposed to somehow fit the inner void of the soul for deeper metaphysical and supernatural truths
Also explains why buddhism spread so much in China, it has sounder principles, doctrines and practices
There is philosophical daoism, religious daoism, and 'ways of movement' or however you want to call it. Religious daoism has some interpretations but you get that "traditions of interpretation" are very anti-dao?
Buddhism just daoism with indian stuff in it. It spread because it caved into being an organised religious institution that could use pre-existing Asian philosophies like the dao.
Daoism is anarchism. Legalism and confucianism are statism