From “Tao of Pooh” to “The Tao of Muhammad Ali” there seems to be no end to these gentrified takes on Taoism in the West. What these writers forgot or refuse to tell you is that Taoism, had always been a religious philosophy since its conception.

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Huang Kejian, 2010, From Destiny to Dao: A Survey of PreQin Philosophy in China
Hong Yuan, 2018, The Sinitic Civilization Book II
Hansen, Chad, Spring 2020 Edition, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Edward N. Zalta (ed.), "Daoism"
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