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To: alt.magick.tyagi From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (mordred) Subject: JGoff: Religious Daoism and Philosophical Daoism Date: 16 May 1995 12:16:47 -0700 [from alt.philosophy.taoism: jgoff@reed.edu (John Goff)] The point was made that the distinctions between Daoisms in China is not as clear cut as it appears to be in the West...One of the first things ones needs to understand these things from the Chinese perspective is that none of these 'schools' really existed, anymore than you could walk around Europe and point to a person on the street who would say, "I'm a Structuralist" or "I'm a Formalist." No. Yes, there are philosophers who found philosophical schools, but no-one walks around in this country saying, "I believe in physics, chemistry and biology don't really exist," or vice versa. The real picture is much more complicated. In fact, after the Tang dynasty, the /vast/ majority of the populace was both Daoist /and/ Confucianist. Obviously, these people didn't see a very large contradiction here, as you don't see too many Christian Satanists walking about. A.C. Graham's book "Disputers of the Tao" entirely concerns this question. The fact is, everyone had a "Dao" Confucianists, Daoists, Mohists, etc. What we call Daoism just never existed the way we think of it. It really is a lot like Western Philosophy in that sense, there are schools, (Formalist Structuralist, etc.) but they operate from similar perspectives. Also, what do you about people like Lu Dong Bin (Lu Tong-pin) or Zhang Bo Duan (Chang Po-tuan) who are /both/ 'religious' and 'philosophical' Daoists. Don't get hung up on terminology, words are subjective symbols. John
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