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The Quest for Ecstatic Morality in Early China

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The Quest for Ecstatic Morality in Early China
The Quest for Ecstatic Morality in Early China

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There is an intense love of freedom evident in the " ," a text last seen when it was buried in a Chinese tomb in 300 B.C.E. It tells us that both joy and sadness are the ecstatic zenith of what the text terms " ." Combining emotions into allows them to serve as a stepping stone to the Dao, the transcendent source of morality for the world. There is a process one must follow to prepare : it must be beautified by learning from the classics written by ancient sages. What is absent from the process is any indication that the emotions themselves need to be suppressed or regulated, as is found in most other texts from this time. The Confucian principles of humanity and righteousness are not rejected, but they are seen as needing our and the Dao. Holloway argues that the Dao here is the same Dao of Laozi's . As a missing link between what came to be called Confucianism and Daoism, the " " is changing the way we look at the history of religion in early China.

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