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Reading the Dao : a thematic inquiry / Keping Wang.
Van Pelt Library BL1900.L35 W333 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Keping, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Laozi. Dao de jing.
- Laozi.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 182 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, [2011]
- Summary:
- An introductory guide to the Dao de Jing, exploring key themes and passages in this key work of Daoist thought.>
- Contents:
- The essence of the Dao
- The features of the Dao
- The movement of the Dao
- The Dao and the myriad things
- The Dao of Heaven and the Dao of human
- From the Dao into the De
- The qualities of the De
- On have-substance and have-no-substance
- On take-action and take-no-action
- On pleasure-snobbery and acquisitiveness
- On the hard and the soft
- On the beautiful and the ugly
- On beauty, truth, and goodness
- On modesty and retreat
- On knowledge and wisdom
- On fortune and misfortune
- On life and death
- On the merits of contentment
- On the possibilities of achievement
- On the art of leadership
- On warfare
- On peace
- On returning to antiquity
- On the ideal society
- The attitude to the Dao and the De
- The experience of the Dao and the De
- The praxis of the Dao and the De
- The attainment of the Dao and the De
- Appendix : the Dao de jing of Laozi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781441186119
- 1441186115
- 9781441196514
- 144119651X
- OCLC:
- 606768107
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