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Tao Te Ching 3.0 [Homepage] - by: eastsoft team - Download links  Click to enlarge Description: The Tao Te Ching is the philosophical counterpart -the rival and the complement- to the Analects of Confucius. These two classics are the foundational works of their respective traditions, Daoism and Confucianism, which may be said to constitute the yin and yang of Chinese culture. The Tao Te Ching is primarily reflective in nature, while the Analects is more activist. Both works consist of pithy lines mixed in with longer passages, but the Analects is rooted in concrete historical settings and deals with specific persons and problems. In contrast, The Tao Te Ching is without obvious historical markers and gives the impression of timeless universality. Beyond saying that these works have been traditionally associated with Confucius and Laozi, and that both works address central themes of a dramatic period of Chinese history (ca. 500-350 b.c.), there has been no scholarly consensus on how to date or even define either one.13. The Tao Te Ching is primarily a political treatise. It is by bringing this anarchic and ecological sensibility to the operations of human governance that government in its relationship to community can become wuwei, free of any coercive activity and free to orchestrate the full talents of its constituent population.
Comments (Add comment) | File size: 9358 Kb Date: 03/26/2008 Homepage Install support: Install and Uninstall Platform/EBook kind: Win95, Win98, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Home Basic Language: English, Chinese, ChineseSimplified |
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