Taoist Sociopolitical Utopia in the “Taiping Jing”

Student: Listopad Ivan

Faculty: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Educational Programme: Asian Studies (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

In this graduation qualification work, the problem of the Taoist social and political utopia is raised on the basis of the information obtained in the Taoist treatise Taiping jing. The features peculiar to the exclusively Taoist philosophy and due to the thematic selection and the translation of its results were analyzed. The main provisions establishing a balance in the world, in the representation of the followers of the Taoist school, were revealed.

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