The great debate.

The great debate.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    legalism is the best of the three, but all are dogshit. Taoism is pure ooga-booga monkey tier

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >the philosophies which nourished the greatest realm in the world historically eclipsed only by Rome at its height, are dogshit
      Ok

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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 moronic by these stupid ideologies, the zhangs would be eating ET barbeque on alpha centauri right now.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Taoism is essentially Christianity before Jesus.

      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 moronic by these stupid ideologies, the zhangs would be eating ET barbeque on alpha centauri right now.

      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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Taoism is essentially Christianity before Jesus.
        Asian Logos actually
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          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.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Confucianism

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >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.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    pretty much any western ideology (including communism) > buddhism > legalism > confucianism > daoism

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Daoisim is pretty cool. Not for everybody though.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Confucian dads during a famine be like

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Give me a tl;dr of each of these

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        where muh mohism at.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Extinct

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >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

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >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.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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?

      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

      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.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Daoism is anarchism. Legalism and confucianism are statism

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