04 – Confucianism and Taoism

2014 Spring

CONFUCIANISM


Confucius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius

UNESCO Sites: Temple, Mansion, Gravesite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbW2bN74V2w


“Four Books” of Confucianism

(1) Great Learning by Confucius
http://classics.mit.edu/Confucius/learning.html

(2) Analects of Confucius
http://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/analects.php

(see Bks. 2, 7: after Foust 2012 (The Dial); also see 12.1, 17.6: after Shirong Luo 2012)

(3) Doctrine of the Mean by Confucius
http://nothingistic.org/library/confucius/mean/


Mencius

Background
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mencius

(4) The Mencius
http://nothingistic.org/library/mencius/


Xunxi (vs. Mencius on Human Nature)
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/hsun-tse.html


DAOISM


Recall Confucius and the Rectification of Names

Laozi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi

Dao de Ching
http://www.taoism.net/ttc/complete.htm

Chuang Tzu
http://nothingistic.org/library/chuangtzu/


NEO-CONFUCIANISM

Zhou Dunyi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Dunyi

Diagram of the Supreme Polarity
http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Writings/Chou.htm

Another Look
http://www.fengshuiwellbeing.com/Taijitu.html

Tongshu
http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Writings/Tongshu.htm

Afterword: Hindu Self and Buddhist No-self


From the library databases. Translation of a medieval Taoist text written by a woman:

WANG, ROBIN R. “Kundao 坤道: A Lived Body In Female Daoism.” Journal Of Chinese Philosophy 36.2 (2009): 277-292. Religion and Philosophy Collection. Web. 17 Aug. 2013.


I Ching

Wilhelm Translation
http://deoxy.org/iching

I Ching Sequencer
http://taolodge.com/flash/sequencer.html

YiJing Hexagram Sequences
http://www.biroco.com/yijing/sequence.htm

Yi-globe
http://www.i-ching.hu/chp00/chp2/reconstruct.htm

I Ching Online
http://www.ichingonline.net/index.php