Daoism
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
DAOISM
- Human dao, natural dao, great dao
- Choice. Science. History and future.
- Determinism- overlap in natural and great dao (everything
- That is and was is the natural way of the world)
- Dao de jing- philosophy book
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DAOISM
- Dao directly means path. It might suggest a Devine element
- Shen Daoism- negates the social and natural days
- Practice intentional stoicism, deterministic (corollary dao)
- confucian dao interpretation=everyone follows same dao (stoicism)
- plurulism/zhuangzi dao= indidual dao created through practice
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DAOISM
- Pre-Laozi (Confucian Mohists)
- Laozi identifies that dao cannot be describe in words
- (Dao must be constant path,words are not constant)
- what does this imply about daoist epistemelogical belief?
- inadequate language, skepticism, nihilism, (no) (justifies stoicism)
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DISCUSSION
- How would Daoists live in the Cultural Revolution? (socially)
- Knowing that Daoism emphasizes individual withdrawl, would
- it work in a collectivist society? (Communisn, political)
- They deny social pressures which interfere with the natural way...
- how would that work esthetically? (individualism in art/lit)
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KING OF TREES
- Sacred Nature
- Corruption and subsequent removal from society
- Symbolism (Knotty's burial, burning, flowers)
- Discuss what concept Li Li is referring to:
- "...once it falls, a concept will be destroyed." (Cheng 43)
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KING OF CHESS
- Wang as embodiment of Daoism-food=metaphysics, chess=epistemological
- learns from curiosity and individual exploration
- Corruption of Society "Country...busy with Revolution..." (Cheng, 66)
- Food "Watching him eat reminded me of Jack London's
- story 'Love of Life'" (Cheng, 70). (man in wild, determines values)
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KING OF CHILDREN
- Theme of Food and Limits of the Metaphysically given
- Seeking satisfaction in places other than money
- word significance "What if you can read and write, but nobody
- understands you and you don't understand anyone else?" (151).
- Teaches individually, not ruled by politics or rules
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Guess that Quote!
- "Don't give me any of this flowery stuff...'Red flags
- flutter in the breeze, war drums shake the sky... Cut
- out all this stuff, it's no use! (Cheng 158).
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Guess that Quote!
- "'Do you want me to call a meeting because of you?
- ...You're asking for trouble!' said the Party Secretary."
- '...you're under me, and I'll cover up for you.'"
- ...................................................................................
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Guess that Quote!
- "...took us to visit the Secretary for Culture and Education...
- no one had ever been in the home of someone of his rank"
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Discussion
- How did the time periods of each of the novellas
- affect the spoken individuality of the characters?
- How does individuality relate to Daoism?
- Can we ever be void of socio-political influence, how?
- (try not to use Thoreau as example ^)
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Discussion
- How does Cheng's experiences with Daoism
- manifest itself through his writing? exmamples
- To what extent do you agree that skepticism/nihilism
- is achievable without external influence or teaching?
- What evidence is there of that in the book?
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