RELG 101 Lecture Notes - Taoism, Confucianism
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While hinduism and confucianism have strong, prosocial elements. Jainism, buddhism, daoism have strong anti-social elements there are things that are more important than society. Religion offers prescriptions and ideals for social order, and discuss human relations at length, but the importance of society is not always the same. The ultimate referent is not society, but the cosmos. Education does nothing but sever your connection with the dao. In daoism texts, you"ll see women above men, weakness as the greatest strength, and other contrary ideas. Ie. if you were a strong, straight tree, someone would cut you down. If you were a gnarled, wilted, ugly tree, you would be left to grow and dig your roots in. Some day we will all wake up and realize this was all a dream; the dumb believe that this is real.