Ep. 50 | Daoism (Part 1)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2011

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this week’s episode, Laszlo tackles Daoism, a philosophy, a religion and a way of life that everyone has heard about but not everyone learned the backstory. This time we look at the history and the times that spawned this most fertile of philosophies. In later episodes, we’ll dig a little deeper and look more at continue reading >> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.0	Greetings all.
0:49.0	Welcome back to another episode of the China History Podcast as usual,
0:53.0	Laus le Montgomery here with another random topic from Chinese history.
0:58.0	This week we're going to look at Taoism and try and explain what it's sort of about,
1:02.0	where it came from, and just some general
1:05.0	info and mostly historical background.
1:08.2	It's a heavy subject as all philosophies and religions tend to be, so I'm going to try and focus just on the history
1:15.0	and basic details about how it all started.
1:18.0	And then later on in another episode will delve a little deeper and look at the gods, spirits, and rituals.
1:25.0	Will Durant said it best when he said,
1:29.0	Laalze, the greatest of the pre-Confucian philosophers was wiser than Deng Sheer.
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