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>>14127660
>Confucian
>Taoist
Literally pick one.
Confucianism is about the person submitting to society, while Taoism is about how a person relates with the universe while telling society to politely fuck off.

Read the Tao Te Chin and make the conection with the neo-platonist philosophy. Beautiful book.

>>14128301
>Tao Te Ching
missed a g

Taoism is unironically one of the wisest schools of thought ever produced. Confucianism is a sterile, conservative psy-op for keeping people in line according to a hierarchy of social values

>>14127660
Taoism aka "be a plant lmao" is the biggest meme philosophy ever.

>>14128328
That's why modern China has killed it. Mao's revolution literally killed those that had such connections with the past. Right now the chinese don't understand anything from the Tao Te Ching. I dare say that the westerners have studied it more.

>>14128262
Wouldn't it be better to take a look at both and then decide which is better?
>>14128301
>>14128328
Thank you, should I also look at Zhuangzi afterwards? What do you think of Mozi?

>>14128475
Zhuangzhi is interesting but difficult. It’s more like anecdotes and stories that can be difficult to parse out

>>14128487
Oh also, is Taoist alchemy and more generally Taoism after Lao and Zhuang worth looking into?

>>14128496
I honestly have no idea sorry

>>14127660
Taoist, yes.

>>14128496
I like wabi sabi