RELS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Vedas, Laozi, Taoism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 131
• Professor: Aditi Sen- Chowdhury

Document Summary

Confucius: structure of relationships vertical: rituals are a way to structure them be the right son, fulfill your duty. Interested in a stable society: family is the first step to stability. All humans are evil, inherently no good. Ritualistic belief in spirits but political realism is important: understand rituals are not embedded in superstition. Not magic understand rituals develop a connection. Do not think that family is actually in heaven when participate a ritual to commemorate them. Confucianism blends the two well, daoism has two sides. Lao zi and zhuang zi: works can be both confucius and daoist. Similar to vedas, contains many sayings proverbial. Believe in magic supernatural beliefs, magic rituals. Health and body give an intellectual model. The way can be similar to brahman: predates everything, all reality someday you will see that you are one with the. Dao can only become known to you.