http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Philosophy That's the world from my perspective - with a free weblog from blogigo. en kjun kjun Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:36:05 +0100 daily 1 If there be righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in each nation there will be peace in the world. Dao The Chinese word tao (pronounced "dao") means a way or a path. Confucians used the term tao to speak of the way human beings ought to behave in society. In other words, tao, for them, was an ethical or moral way. From the point of view of Taoism however, the Confucian concept of tao was too limited. Taoists preferred to understand the tao as the Way of Nature as a whole. They believed that Confucians, by insisting on a purely human Way, exaggerated the importance of man and failed to pay attention to the lessons which Nature has to offer about time and change, gain and loss, the useful and the useless. The basic idea of the Taoists was to enable people to realize that, since human life is really only a... Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:36:05 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Philosophy/Chinese-Philosophies-Religions/1/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Philosophy/Chinese-Philosophies-Religions/1/