"There is no god in Confucianism or Taoism: only nature, which enforces the need for social balance and cooperation. "
There is no god of organized religion, of beliefs, in Confucianism or Taoism, but whoever wrote the Tao Te Ching had either realized, or met someone who had realized the Very Divine to a greater degree than Jesus, Gautama and Krishna.
This is a masterly survey of an obviously complex issue — you have a remarkable feel for Chinese civilization (which is different from knowing the facts of political history).
“Long before the peoples of the Western World turned to the machine, mechanism as an element in social life had come into existence. Before inventors created engines to take the place of men, the leaders of men had drilled and regimented multitudes of human beings: they had discovered how to reduce men to machines.” Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, 1934
"There is no god in Confucianism or Taoism: only nature, which enforces the need for social balance and cooperation. "
There is no god of organized religion, of beliefs, in Confucianism or Taoism, but whoever wrote the Tao Te Ching had either realized, or met someone who had realized the Very Divine to a greater degree than Jesus, Gautama and Krishna.
This is a masterly survey of an obviously complex issue — you have a remarkable feel for Chinese civilization (which is different from knowing the facts of political history).
I speak as someone with partial Chinese ancestry.
“Long before the peoples of the Western World turned to the machine, mechanism as an element in social life had come into existence. Before inventors created engines to take the place of men, the leaders of men had drilled and regimented multitudes of human beings: they had discovered how to reduce men to machines.” Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, 1934