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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Oriental religions > Taoism
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Zhuangzi
(Paperback)
James Legge; Zhuang Zhou
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R199
Discovery Miles 1 990
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Daodejing
(Paperback)
Lao zi; Translated by Edmund Ryden; Introduction by Benjamin Penny
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R278
R226
Discovery Miles 2 260
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"Of ways you may speak, / but not the Perennial Way; / By names you
may name, / but not the Perennial Name." So begins the best-loved
of all the classical books of China and the most universally
popular, the Daodejing or Classic of the Way and Life-Force.
Laozi's 2,500 year-old masterpiece is a work that defies
definition. The dominant image is of the Way, the mysterious path
through the whole cosmos modeled on the great Silver River or Milky
Way that traverses the heavens. A life-giving stream, the Way gives
rise to all things and holds them in her motherly embrace. It
enables the individual, and society as a whole, to find balance, to
let go of useless grasping, and to live in harmony with the great
unchanging laws that govern the universe and all its inhabitants.
This new translation draws on the latest archaeological finds and
brings out the word play and poetry of the original.
Straightforward commentary accompanies the text, and the
introduction provides helpful historical and interpretative
context.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
This text considers the prevalence of Lao-Zhuang Daoism and
Huang-Lao Daoism in late pre-imperial and early imperial Chinese
traditional thought. The author uses unique excavated documents and
literature to explore the Huang-Lao tradition of Daoist philosophy,
which exerted a great influence on China ancient philosophy and
political theories, from the Pre-Qin period to the Wei-Jin periods.
It explains the original and significance of Huang-Lao Daoism, its
history and fundamental characteristics, notably discussing the two
sides of Huang-Lao, namely the role and function of Lao Zi and the
Yellow Emperor, and discusses why the two can constitute a
complementary relationship. It also provides a key study of the
Mawangdui silk texts, bamboo slips of the Heng Xian, Fan Wu Liu
Xing, considering both the theory of human Xing and of Qi.
Setting the context for the upheavals and transformations of
contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max
Weber's celebrated sociology of China. Returning to the sources
drawn on by Weber in The Religion of China: Confucianism and
Taoism, it offers an informed account of the Chinese institutions
discussed and a concise discussion of Weber's writings on 'the rise
of modern capitalism'. Notably it subjects Weber's argument to
critical scrutiny, arguing that he drew upon sources which infused
the central European imagination of the time, constructing a sense
of China in Europe, whilst European writers were constructing a
particular image of imperial China and its Confucian framework.
Re-examining Weber's discussion of the role of the individual in
Confucian thought and the subordination, in China, of the interests
of the individual to those of the political community and the
ancestral clan, this book offers a cutting edge contribution to the
continuing debate on Weber's RoC in East Asia today, against the
background of the rise of modern capitalism in the "little dragons"
of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the "big
dragons" of Japan and the People's Republic of China.
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