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Compare and Contrast: Though Taoist (Daoist) and Confucian principles have undergone many changes in the course of their development, they have always shared many basic concepts and often employed a similar philosophical vocabulary, even thought they have ascribed different meanings to their terms. Common to both ideologies are the ideals of the beneficent sage(the perfect- or any event the superior- man who benefits society by his example) and such associated ideas as the principle of harmony or identification with the universe, conformity to the pattern of cosmic change, beauty of the natural order (as opposed to artifice) and obedience to natural