Daodejing Or Tao Te Ching Analysis

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13 If you are the first person to answer this, pick a chapter or chapters from the Daodejing that strike you, identify it or their chapter numbers in the text, and explain what you find striking about it or them. (A minimum of 150 words) All other students, read any of the chapters that any previous student(s) write about and find other chapters in the text that you can connect to the chapters the previous student(s) wrote about. Explain your connection. Post your writing in the Blog Here’s some information that might help you: The title, the Daodejing or Tao Te Ching comes from the opening words of its two sections: \道 dào -"way," Chapter 1, and 德 dé -"virtue," Chapter 38, plus jīng "classic." According to tradition, it was written around the 6th century BCE by Lao Tzu, "Old Master", a…show more content…
After reading this I began to think that is could not possibly be true. If people were to abandon knowledge and wisdom, then I believe that there would be no benefit. However, the author seems to think so. In the next line, it states, “cut off benevolence, abandon righteousness, and the people will return to being filial and kind (19). I can make the connection between this chapter and chapter twenty-nine in that, both chapters discuss the issues with human beings repulsive activities and behaviors. For instance, chapter twenty-nine states, the more people who try to embrace life, will end up losing it. This correlates to chapter nine-teen in that this chapter is saying that people should give up righteousness and give up wisdom, because it will only result in failure. It also states that people should embrace simplicity…and make few desires for themselves (19). Both of these chapters sound like they believe in communism, where everyone is treated equally and viewed on equal social
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