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  • noun Alternative spelling of Taoist.

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Examples

  • This is harder to find explicitly expressed (although clearly implied) in Daoist terminology, but in the Buddhist tradition the classic expression, as often translated into English, goes something along the lines of: 'form is emptiness and emptiness is form'.

    A Materialist Red Herring 2009

  • This perhaps becomes most clear among those philosophers (now usually classified as Daoist) who argued that the distinctions we draw in language cannot consistently provide good guidance.

    Xunzi Robins, Dan 2007

  • The withdrawal from society, the antipathy toward ritual roles, traditional “morality,” and any social structures or traditional culture suggests a kind of Daoist

    Taoism Hansen, Chad 2007

  • Such relativism deserve the 'Daoist' appellation on the further ground that it entails that normative authority comes from higher-level dao, not from the Confucian-Mohist tiannature: sky.

    Taoism Hansen, Chad 2007

  • 'Daoist' is a natural characterization of the ideology behind any non-Confucian or anti-conformist strains of thought.

    Taoism Hansen, Chad 2007

  • This is an excellent example of the kind of Daoist syncretism Sima Tan describes and that survives in other early texts such as the

    Zhuangzi Roth, Harold 2001

  • Chuang Tzu, the Daoist, was walking with his friend and exclaimed, See how free the fishes leap and dart?

    Max Eternity: Joe Nalven: Living Anthropology and the Art of "Homage" Max Eternity 2010

  • What if we get more Buddhist/Daoist about this and posit that both exist together?

    A Materialist Red Herring 2009

  • Sanctuary Retreats The ship stops at Daoist temples and remote villages, and offers views of the controversial Three Gorges Dam.

    Second Golden Age of Cruising 2011

  • The consensus among Chinese is that China always had a very strong substitute for Europe's enlightenment in a range of other historical constructs, including Confucian values and Buddhist and Daoist ideologies.

    The China Example, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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