The universal sentiment of Daoist morality

doi:10.1007/s11466-009-0034-1

Front. Philos. China

2009, Vol. 4

Issue (4) : 524-536 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-009-0034-1

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The universal sentiment of Daoist morality

XU Jianliang,

Department of Philosophy and Science, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China;

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Abstract Daoism has often been misunderstood as moral nihilism or anti-moralism, but the true Daoism indeed adopts a positive attitude towards morality. At the foundation of its universal sentiment is an affirmation of morality. Daoism takes all things as the starting point of its values in moral philosophy, and ziran 自然 (sponstaneously so) as the foundation of its philosophy with the universal commitment. Daoism hopes to use “Dao” to create the best environment for survival, and to fulfill individual responsibility for all things in the world. This is a universal and open attitude towards values. The attraction of Daoist universal sentiment is that it takes ziran as its path, and “objectless desire”, “unprincipled knowing”, “non-coercive action” as ways and means to ensure the transfer of the universal value to all things, while ensuring that they realize their true values and make contributions to the whole society.

Keywords Daoism all things ziran universal sentiment

Issue Date: 05 December 2009

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XU Jianliang. The universal sentiment of Daoist morality[J]. Front. Philos. China, 2009, 4(4): 524-536.

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