Confucianism Slides

Taoism & Confucianism

Chinese civilisation has been shaped, more than by any other intellectual force, by the long conversation between two indigenous traditions. Confucianism — the way of human propriety, ritual, social harmony, and educated cultivation. Taoism — the way of nature, spontaneity, non-coercion, and the dao that exceeds names. Each defines itself partly in relation to the other.