Daoism and Confucianism
On chapter 13 and 14 in the book "Awakening An Introduction to the history of Eastern Thought" by Patrick S. Bresnan talks about Confucianism and Daoism. The main ideas where how they came about and what these religions meant and did for people. Both of them were invested in nature. While they were a little different, they had the same general idea of letting nature take its course in everyone's life. "Thus, in a broad sense, Confucius was in agreement with the fundamental view of Daoism"(Bresnan 339). They had the same end goal but somewhat different ways on getting hints to why there is two religions of the same goal just like the Shakyamuni Buddhism and Theravada Buddhism. The person in the picture is Confucius, the originator of the idea of Confucianism For the chapter 13 question I chose w hat did Confucius mean by saying that human society had gotten out of harmony with the larger natural order that it is a part of? Would...