PHIL 3920 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Tao Te Ching, Taoism
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In daoism the sage is on our level, while the confucian sage is a heavenly entity. You can see loyalty in the individuals in a chaotic state. Line 1 goes back to the idea of non-action. become contentious, and anxious. In this text taking up action/striving for something is going to lead you to. You can apply to anything as long it"s in accordance with itself. When you become natural, you will attract good. When a whole lot of bad is going on, you can spot the good . Kind parents and filial children by pointing them out it makes us believe something is wrong. If we need to point them out, that means they"re special. Out of self-conscious to purse a way. Advice to abandon the unatural because otherwise you"ll pit yourself against natural. Warning to leaders against abandoning what"s natural to prevent chaos. Unhewn wood has no one purpose, it"s just itself.