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By Hans-Georg Moeller

For centuries, the traditional chinese language philosophical textual content the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) has involved and annoyed its readers. whereas it deals a wealth of wealthy philosophical insights in regards to the cultivation of one's physique and reaching one's right position inside nature and the cosmos, its teachings and constitution may be enigmatic and obscure.

Hans-Georg Moeller provides a transparent and coherent description and research of this vaguely understood chinese language vintage. He explores the routine pictures and concepts that form the paintings and provides various worthwhile techniques to realizing and appreciating this canonical textual content. Moeller expounds at the middle philosophical concerns addressed within the Daodejing, clarifying such the most important thoughts as Yin and Yang and Dao and De. He explains its teachings on numerous matters, together with sexuality, ethics, hope, cosmology, human nature, the sentiments, time, demise, and the loss of life penalty. The Daodejing additionally bargains a particular perfect of social order and political management and provides a philosophy of conflict and peace.

An illuminating exploration, The Daodejing is an engaging foil to the philosophical outlook of Western humanism and includes astounding parallels among its teachings and nontraditional modern philosophies.

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