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@Taoist Texts Almost all DDJ translations use the Wang Bi characters (e.g. ctext.org, James Legge), and Wang B was a Confucian. Do you think the Guodian was also written by a Confucian?

 

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3 hours ago, Cobie said:

@Taoist Texts Almost all DDJ translations use the Wang Bi characters (e.g. ctext.org, James Legge), and Wang B was a Confucian. Do you think the Guodian was also written by a Confucian?

great question.

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 the Chu slips are dated to around 300 BC.

Kong Fuzi (Chinese: 孔夫子), more usually Kongzi (孔子; lit. 'Master Kǒng', c. 551 – c. 479 BCE),

 

150 years is not enough time for the Confucianism to spread all over china so whoever copied this text was not a Confucian in a sense of a formal offical scholar.

However, Guodian was composed by "Lao-zi" whose student Confucius himself was. So in that sense yes Guodian is a Confucian text because Confucianism is "Laoism".

Or conversely Lao-zi was the first Confucian before Confucius .

You get my drift?

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On 24/11/2023 at 5:01 PM, Taoist Texts said:

… either you are grateful for yourself  OR you are caring for someone. You have to chose. …

“It is more accurate to view Confucian ethics as a kind of virtue ethics, rather than as a kind of care ethics.“
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3810583

 

 

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On 11/26/2023 at 12:54 PM, Taoist Texts said:

conversely Lao-zi was the first Confucian before Confucius .

It seems there was a big misunderstanding between Laotze's 道與德(principle of Tao and virtue of Tao) and Confucius's 道德(virtue of morality).

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On 26/11/2023 at 9:54 PM, Taoist Texts said:

… Confucianism is "Laoism" ..

 

The DDJ is, like Confucianism, a virtue ethics.

 

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On 20/12/2023 at 10:01 PM, ChiDragon said:

It seems there was a big misunderstanding between Laotze's 道與德(principle of Tao and virtue of Tao) and Confucius's 道德(virtue of morality).

經 jing1 - scripture. 道德經 - a book about morality’.  

 

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經 jing1 - scripture. 道德經 - a book about 道德 “ (virtue of morality)”

I like to translate 道德經 as ‘a book about the way of morality’.  
 

 

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That’s the beauty of online, now it’s all amended to a version you will like even less.  
 

 

You mean the ugly part?