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Is it? As far as I understand it is a philosophy. Like many ideologies, it got turn into a religion afterwards

soufron 2y ago
Or the opposite.
suraci 2y ago
You're right, don't know why you got down voted Taoism originally developed by Laozi(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi) as one of many ideologies in Warring States period(~4 BC) It became into a religion starting from Han Dynasty(~1 AC)
- netdevphoenix 2y ago
  It is a typical HN behaviour to downvote you when they don't like your comment regardless of whether the comment is right or not even though you are not supposed to downvote for those reasons
- stryan 2y ago
  Because they're not: the distinction between "Religious Taoism" and "Philosophical Taoism" is generally recognized as an Orientalist[0] conception i.e. an excuse to talk about the parts they liked or could think of as Western (Philosophical) and ignore the parts they didn't like or couldn't (Religious). It's viewed as emerging from a collection of oral master-student based traditions that have always included spiritual components, such astral-project/"far walking" and mystic unity with the Dao. There wasn't a distrinction between philosophy and religion like there is today, hence why a lot of Chinese philosophy relies on concepts like Tien ("heaven", though more in a process sense) even if it seems otherwise secular/philosophical. [0] I think you still see this mix-up today due to a lot of people reading the TTC or the Zhuangzi from Gutenberg or some other free online translation, not realizing that all those translations are from the 1800s and not a reflection of modern scholarship. For example, Laozi hasn't been considered a historical figure for a while now.
est 2y ago
It's more like a semantics issue. In Chinese there's taoism can either mean 道教 the religion or 道家 the pre-Qin school of philosophy

Or the opposite.

You're right, don't know why you got down voted Taoism originally developed by Laozi(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi) as one of many ideologies in Warring States period(~4 BC) It became into a religion starting from Han Dynasty(~1 AC)

netdevphoenix 2y ago
It is a typical HN behaviour to downvote you when they don't like your comment regardless of whether the comment is right or not even though you are not supposed to downvote for those reasons
stryan 2y ago
Because they're not: the distinction between "Religious Taoism" and "Philosophical Taoism" is generally recognized as an Orientalist[0] conception i.e. an excuse to talk about the parts they liked or could think of as Western (Philosophical) and ignore the parts they didn't like or couldn't (Religious). It's viewed as emerging from a collection of oral master-student based traditions that have always included spiritual components, such astral-project/"far walking" and mystic unity with the Dao. There wasn't a distrinction between philosophy and religion like there is today, hence why a lot of Chinese philosophy relies on concepts like Tien ("heaven", though more in a process sense) even if it seems otherwise secular/philosophical. [0] I think you still see this mix-up today due to a lot of people reading the TTC or the Zhuangzi from Gutenberg or some other free online translation, not realizing that all those translations are from the 1800s and not a reflection of modern scholarship. For example, Laozi hasn't been considered a historical figure for a while now.

est 2y ago

It's more like a semantics issue. In Chinese there's taoism can either mean 道教 the religion or 道家 the pre-Qin school of philosophy