LEADER 05606nam 2200685z 450 001 9910825004303321 005 20231110224047.0 010 $a1-394-26103-9 010 $a1-118-46575-X 010 $a1-118-46567-9 010 $a1-118-46572-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000001169644 035 $a(EBL)1580436 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001081704 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11681030 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001081704 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11090663 035 $a(PQKB)11708779 035 $a(DLC) 2014001116 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1580436 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10822325 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL551629 035 $a(OCoLC)865653313 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7103691 035 $a(JP-MeL)3000110260 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1580436 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001169644 100 $a20220613d ||| || 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDecoding Dao $ereading the Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching) and the Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu) /$fLee Dian Rainey 210 1$aChichester, West Sussex:$cWiley Blackwell,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (269 pages) 225 1 $aNew York Academy of Sciences 300 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index 311 $a1-118-46574-1 311 $a1-306-20378-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Book Notes; Chronology; Section One: THE CONTEXT; Chapter One; The Social and Political Background; Confucianism; Mozi and Mohism (Moe-ds) and (Moe-ism); Yang Zhu and Shen Dao (Ya-ahng, Jew); Language and Logicians; Trends During the Warring States Era; Cultural Heroes and Concepts; Summary; Section Two: AUTHORS AND TEXTS; Chapter Two; The Dao De Jing; Why Does the Dao De Jing/Tao Te Ching/Laozi/Lao Tzu Have So Many Names?; Dao De Jing, The Author; Dao De Jing, the Text; The Dao De Jing, the Style of the Text 327 $aThe Dao De Jing in the West The Zhuangzi, the Author; The Zhuangzi, the Text; The Zhuangzi, the Style of the Text; The Zhuangzi in the West; Issues in Translation; Summary; Chapter Three; The Dao? A Dao? Dao? daos? dao?; Images: Water, Women, Baby, Root, and Others; What Is the Problem?; Conventional Values: Pairs of Opposites; Being and Non-Being; Summary; Chapter Four; Illogical Statements?; Decoding; Not Acting, Not Knowing, Not Desiring; Ziran, Self-So, Natural, Spontaneous; Language; Morality; Summary; Chapter Five; War; Government, Society, and the Sage-Ruler; The Golden Age 327 $aAdvice for Would-Be Sages Losing dao; Summary; Chapter Six; What Is the Problem?; Anti-Confucians; Anti-Mohists; Being Useless; Point of View; This and That; Knowing How; Knowing What; Summary; Chapter Seven; Language: Convention and Culture; This/That, True/False; Language Is OK, Up to a Point; How to Use Language; Clarity; Death; Transformation; Survival of Consciousness and an Afterlife; Immortality; Dao; Summary; Chapter Eight; Public Life; The Golden Age; What Should We Do?; Mirror; Forgetting; Mind/Heart Fasting; Perfected People; The Relationship of the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi 327 $aSummary Section Three: DEVELOPING DAO; Chapter Nine; The School of Zhuangzi and Followers of the Dao De Jing; The Han Feizi; The Guanzi; Huang-Lao; The Huainanzi; The Liezi; The Han Dynasty and Beyond; Summary; Chapter Ten; Organized Daoism; The Search for Immortality; Organized Groups; The Cult of Laozi; Modern Organized Daoism; The Mystical Reading; The Philosophical Reading; Modern Daoism; Dao Lite52; A Lao-Zhuang Daoist; What Is Daoism and Other Problems; Glossary of Technical Terms; Glossary of Pronunciation; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index 330 $a"Written by a leading authority on Chinese philosophy, Decoding Dao uniquely focuses on the core texts in Daoist philosophy, providing readers with a user-friendly introduction that unravels the complexities of these seminal volumes. 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