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Daoism And Confucianism Similarities

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Both had a major founder of their respective religions: Daoism had Laozi and Confucianism had Confucius. These founders of the two respective religions both had great minds hence the similarities between the religions is somewhat uncanny to me. Both had a master plan to try to better society: particularly the Daodejing in Daoism, but also the Zhuangzi. In Confucianism, you had the Five Great Relationships, The Confucian Virtues, and The Four Books of Confucianism. Both religions believe in a sort of "refining" process of a human being. In Daoism, this process is found by becoming a human being from the formless substance of the universe. Together with Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism are called the three doctrines, while all having a mega
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