Taoism
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The Daodejing is an ancient Chinese text that originated in the Zhou Dynasty. It promotes philosophical concepts like wu wei (non-action) and ziran (naturalness) to encourage peace, order, and tranquility. The text suggests having a small government and population to avoid conflict, and advises people to mind their own business and not interfere with others. The philosophy remains applicable today by providing guidance to reduce tensions, wars, and unnecessary interactions between individuals and nations.
Taoism
- 1. Loazi (Daodejing) By ANTHONY & DIANE 3rd century BC, -happened in china -started from the zhou dynasty king
- 2. Founding figure and philosophy ? Loazi (traditionally) ? Several authors over the period of time The philosophy is about people being themselves and people being peaceful and not fighting all the time.
- 4. How was it applied? ? It was applied because during the time the authors wrote this there was fights between the fudal states, and they thought this would bring peace, order, and tranquility.
- 5. ¡°Let the state be small and the people few¡± ? have a small government & a few number of people because a large government and a lot of people is unnatural.
- 6. ¡°People will reach old age and death& yet not visit one another¡± ? people should just keep to themselves.
- 7. Todays World! ? This can be applied to todays world because there are wars going on and people can use this philosophy to create peace and order with one another an stop fighting, or everbody to just keep to themselves and not bother each other.