Wing-tsit Chan stated that tao meant system of morality to Confucians but the natural, eternal, spontaneous, indescribable way things began and pursued their course to Taoists.[17] Hansen disagrees that these were separate meanings and attributes.[18] Cane asserts tao can be roughly stated to be the flow of the universe, or the force behind the natural order, equating it with the influence that keeps the universe balanced and ordered...
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While the character itself translates as "way," "path," or "route," or sometimes more loosely as "doctrine" n.??, ??or "principle," it is used philosophically to signify the fundamental or true nature of the world. it is an active and holistic conception of the world, rather than a static, atomistic one...
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