LEADER 03652nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910953497403321 005 20240417034710.0 010 $a9780791483176 010 $a0791483177 010 $a9781423747628 010 $a1423747623 035 $a(CKB)1000000000459174 035 $a(OCoLC)461442326 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579153 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000227575 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11186477 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000227575 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10270140 035 $a(PQKB)10465257 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6294 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407730 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579153 035 $a(OCoLC)923408699 035 $a(DE-B1597)681469 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791483176 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407730 035 $a(Perlego)2673040 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000459174 100 $a20040802d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe pristine Dao $emetaphysics in early Daoist discourse /$fThomas Michael 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (183 p.) 225 1 $aSUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780791464762 311 08$a0791464768 311 08$a9780791464755 311 08$a079146475X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-166) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on the Texts -- $tEarly Daoism and Metaphysics -- $tEarly Daoism and Cosmogony -- $tEarly Daoism and Cosmology -- $tEarly Daoism and Ontology -- $tEarly Daoism and Soteriology -- $tEarly Daoism and Modernity -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe Laozi (Daodejing) and the Zhuangzi have long been familiar to Western readers and have served as basic sources of knowledge about early Chinese Daoism. Modern translations and studies of these works have encouraged a perception of Daoism as a mystical philosophy heavy with political implications that advises kings to become one with the Dao. Breaking with this standard approach, The Pristine Dao argues that the Laozi and the Zhuangzi participated in a much wider tradition of metaphysical discourse that included a larger corpus of early Chinese writings.This book demonstrates that early Daoist discourse possessed a distinct, textually constituted coherence and a religious sensibility that starkly differed from the intellectual background of all other traditions of early China, including Confucianism. The author argues that this discourse is best analyzed through its emergence from the mythological imagination of early China, and that it was unified by a set of notions about the Dao that was shared by all of its participants. The author introduces certain categories from the Western religious and philosophical traditions in order to bring out the distinctive qualities constituting this discourse and to encourage its comparison with other religious and philosophical traditions. 410 0$aSUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture. 606 $aCosmogony, Ancient 606 $aTaoism 606 $aTaoist philosophy 615 0$aCosmogony, Ancient. 615 0$aTaoism. 615 0$aTaoist philosophy. 676 $a181/.114 700 $aMichael$b Thomas$f1966-$0953708 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953497403321 996 $aThe pristine Dao$94361135 997 $aUNINA