Plato’s Cosmic Animal Vs. the Daoist Cosmic Plant: Religious and Ideological Implications

Heidegger claims that it is the ultimate job of philosophy to preserve the force of the “elemental words” in which human beings express themselves. Many of these elemental words are found in the various cosmogonies that have informed cultural ideologies around the world. Two of these “elemental word...

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Main Author: McDonough, Richard M. 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: CEEOL [2016]
In: Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
Year: 2016, Volume: 15, Issue: 45, Pages: 3-23
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Plato 427 BC-347 BC, Timaeus / Cosmogony / Animals / Taoism / Plants
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
BE Greco-Roman religions
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
Further subjects:B Daoism
B Religion
B Cosmogony
B Plato
B wu-wei
B Philosophy
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