RELIGIONS
TAOISTS
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Question
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Government cannot rely on citizens for loyalty.
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Government is responsible for caring for nature.
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Government is responsible for achieving balance.
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Government cannot create social order or harmony.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Daoists have historically had a variety of relationships to political power, but, in general, Daoists stayed away from matters of government, preferring to live naturally and simply. Similarly, wealth, status, and fame were all no-nos.
Detailed explanation-2: -Simply put, Daoist harmony is: (1) based on the yin-yang oneness, (2) the way it is (natural), (3) wei-wu-wei (or nonintervention), (4) water-like characters, (5) love for peace, and (6) tolerance and appreciation of differences.
Detailed explanation-3: -The social ideal of primitivism Any willful human intervention is believed to be able to ruin the harmony of the natural transformation process. The spontaneous rhythm of the primitive agrarian community and its un-self-conscious symbiosis with nature’s cycles is thus the Daoist ideal of society.
Detailed explanation-4: -In ancient China, the political implication of this Dao-ism was mainly an opposition to authority, government, coercion, and even to normal socialization in values. Daoist “spontaneity” was contrasted with subtle or overt indoctrination in any specific or social dao.