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Question: Which rings more true to you: Taoism or Confucianism? (if you must pick one)
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Confucianism
 
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Taoism
 
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Blue3
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« on: July 04, 2019, 11:35:13 PM »
« edited: July 05, 2019, 04:19:07 PM by Blue3 »

Confucianism is more focused on being educated in good habits, relative to your role in society and who that social position is superior/inferior/equal to, for social harmony and love. Humans must be tamed for civilization.

Taoism is more focused on being attuned to the natural world and each person being true to their inner-self, living by intuition, being"in the flow" where all actions seem effortless. Humans must reconnect with both inner and outer nature.
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« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2020, 01:50:29 PM »

Confucianism. I just think moral and political questions, questions about how we relate to each other, are inherently more important and meaningful than questions about muh true self and whatnot. Humans are social beings.
But the Tao Te Ching is all about political and moral questions, and its target audience appears to be a ruler.
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« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2023, 01:22:03 AM »


Which leaves unresolved the question of which rings more true to you.  Devil

That said,  I don't think it's fair to equate Confucianism with Fascism.
Confucius wrote about habits... and basically how to have a functioning society without the heavy hand of government. At its core origin, it's highly anti-fascist, and basically established the idea of the social contract and when the people are right to rebel and overthrow its government via revolution.
It is hierarchical (even if it does have those checks and balances), but that element of hierarchy can be removed/corrected, without altering the rest that much.
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