Religion, unlike philosophy, includes narrative: insightful & inspiring tales of the impossible deeds of imaginary heroes.
@St_Rev Dunno. Are you speaking of Taoism? I know almost nothing about it… “Philosophy” and “religion” are of course nebulous categories.
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@Meaningness Well, I thought of Zhuangzi first, but I was mapping the criterion across a list to test it. Lots of the Greeks used narrative. -
@St_Rev Yes. And, Greek philosophy emerged from religion and isn’t fully separable. Maybe no philosophy is!
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@Meaningness Laozi was deified, gods and immortals multiplied beyond counting, but there's hardly any of that in the source texts. -
@St_Rev People like spooks for some reason. Don’t see the appeal, myself. Probably an Asperger’s symptom.
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@Meaningness Western philosophers rarely use narrative, but is that just stylistic? Nietzsche was all about the mythmaking. -
@St_Rev Yeah, academic philosophy came to try to model itself on Newton. And lost a bunch of good tools as a result.
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@Meaningness Supercompressed explanation of Lao-Zhuang Daoism in Buddhist terms: Buddhism minus noble truths 1, 2, 3. Dharmaism. -
@St_Rev If you check noble truth #4 as well, I’m on board! - 1 more reply
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@Meaningness It is true that as 'Daoism' (a false label for many historical sects) became more religious, it became more mythical.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness Basically, I just thought, 'wow, that's a really interesting criterion, let me take it for a spin'.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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