During Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought included Confucianism, logicians, Mohism, Taoism, Legalism, and School of Yin-Yang.
He founded Taoism. All things reverse direction. People should minimize their wants to minimize losses and gain more.
Lieh Tzu lived -400 to -300. Work is Taoist.
He explained and popularized Taoism Tao-Teh-King. If people have judgments based on differing perspectives, no method is available to conclude which judgment is correct. Therefore, truth is elusive. People should not have expectations or perspectives. Distinctions among ideas are not important. Emotions about life and ideas should minimize.
He lived -179 to -122, was a Taoist philosopher, and was Kao-tsu's grandson and emperor's cousin. Kao-tsu or Liu Pang founded Western Han dynasty.
He lived 226 to 249.
He lived 221 to 300 and was Neo-Taoist.
He lived ? to 312, was Neo-Taoist, and used Hsiang Hsiu's text.
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