[New Entry by Chad Hansen on April 19, 2025.]
Chinese Daoism is a Chinese philosophy of natural practice structured around a normative focus on dao (道 path, way). This naturalist philosophical project treated dao as a structure of natural possibility for living beings. Unlike similar Western naturalisms, e.g., pragmatism, Daoism’s foil was contemporary: the Confucian-Mohist (Ru-Mo) dialectic about human (人 ren human, social) dao. Daoism’s critique of Ru-Mo debate…
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