/lit/ - Literature

>>18717365
That's like saying there is a philosophical Platonism without theurgy. Yes there is a philosophical system on which the, now embarrassing to modern ears, magic supervened, but magic was always the practice, the practical praxis, of the philosophy. Philosophy is the 'whatness', magic is the 'thatness' of what the system actually is in the acts and life of the adherent.

Perhaps the magic is accidental and can be dispensed with to recover an essential philosophy unblemished by the magic that now embarrasses us, but it is silly to deny that philosophy always needs a practical side, and for most of history that practical side has been magical-religious. To create a post-magic Daoism you will need to supervene a new praxis onto the philisophical essentiality you hope to recover.