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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Oriental religions > Taoism
The Te of Piglet . . . in which a good deal of Taoist wisdom is revealed through the character and actions of A. A. Milne's Piglet. Piglet? Yes, Piglet. For the better than impulsive Tigger? or the gloomy Eeyore? or the intellectual Owl? or even the lovable Pooh? Piglet herein demonstrates a very important principle of Taoism: The Te--a Chinese word meaning Virtue--of the Small.
The notion of qi/gi ( ) is one of the most pervasive notions found
within the various areas of the East Asian intellectual and
cultural traditions. While the pervasiveness of the notion provides
us with an opportunity to observe the commonalities amongst the
East Asian intellectual and cultural traditions, it also allows us
to observe the differences. This book focuses more on understanding
the different meanings and logics that the notion of qi/gi has
acquired within the East Asian traditions for the purpose of
understanding the diversity of these traditions. This volume begins
to fulfill this task by inquiring into how the notion was
understood by traditional Korean philosophers, in addition to
investigating how the notion was understood by traditional Chinese
philosophers.
This book explains a distinctive pluralist account of truth,
jointly-rooted perspectivism ('JRP' for short). This explanation
unifies various representative while philosophically interesting
truth-concern approaches in early Chinese philosophy on the basis
of people's pre-theoretic "way-things-are-capturing" understanding
of truth. It explains how JRP provides effective interpretative
resources to identify and explain one unifying line that runs
through those distinct truth-concern approaches and how they can
thus talk with and complement each other and contribute to the
contemporary study of the issue of truth. In so doing, the book
also engages with some distinct treatments in the modern study of
Chinese philosophy. Through testing its explanatory power in
effectively interpreting those representative truth-concern
approaches in the Yi-Jing philosophy, Gongsun Long's philosophy,
Later Mohist philosophy, classical Confucianism and classical
Daoism, JRP is also further justified and strengthened. Mou defends
JRP as an original unifying pluralist account in the context of
cross-tradition philosophical engagement, which can also
effectively engage with other accounts of truth (including other
types of pluralist accounts) in contemporary philosophy. The
purpose of this book is dual: (1) it is to enhance our
understanding and treatment of the truth concern as one strategic
foundation of various movements of thought in classical Chinese
philosophy that are intended to capture "how things are"; (2) on
the other hand, it is to explore how the relevant resources in
Chinese philosophy can contribute to the contemporary exploration
of the philosophical issue of truth in philosophically interesting
and engaging way.
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Four Testaments
- Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita: Sacred Scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism
(Paperback)
Brian Arthur Brown; Foreword by Francis X Clooney S J; Contributions by David Bruce, K E Eduljee, Richard Freund, …
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Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world
religions-the Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and
Bhagavad Gita-inviting readers to experience them in full, to
explore possible points of connection and divergence, and to better
understand people who practice these traditions. Following Brian
Arthur Brown's award-winning Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel,
Quran, this volume of Four Testaments features essays by esteemed
scholars to introduce readers to each tradition and text, as well
as commentary on unexpected ways the ancient Zoroastrian tradition
might connect Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism, along
with the Abrahamic faiths. Four Testaments aims to foster deeper
religious understanding in our interconnected and contentious
world.
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