PHIL 3920 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Tao Te Ching, Taoism
24 Mar 2017
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The first book isn"t exclusively about dao , this is the same with the second book. This book is a collective book by a laozi - this person is fictional. There was a philosophical movement around the daodejing period. Laozi provides a philosophical perspective that tries to sound appealing. All schools are interlocutors, which includes fajia (legal-realism). Fajia institutes a set of rewards/punishments for the states. Emphasis on natural and unspoiled, and primitive. For laozi the heavenly way it cannot be articulated and normative, thus it can only be reached by ceasing to speak and act. So masters would be people with extensive training. Mysticism: insight that cannot be transmitted through words and so, a fortiori, cannot be demonstrated. They"re all references to the different human ways, however, none of them are the constant way. First two lines are a job to ruism.
