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Nature and the Value of Learning in Classical Chinese Philosophy and in Augustine—A Comparative Study

Religions, 2023
This paper compares Augustine’s view on the value of learning to classical Chinese philosophy (Laozi, Confucius, Mengzi, Xunzi, Zhu Xi). While Laozi has a quite negative notion of learning as leading humans away from true nature, most Confucians esteem ...
Johannes Brachtendorf
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"Zhuangzi and Laozi Dataset"

, 2021
This is a dataset associated with the article, "Zhuangzi and Laozi: an Intertextual Approach", and published in the Dao Companion to ...
Fried, Daniel
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The Lost Orthodoxy: Yan Zun’s Interpretation of the Laozi and the Pre-Qin to Han Daoist Tradition

Religions
Prior to the Tang Dynasty, interpretations of the Laozi fell into two traditions: the Pre-Qin and Han tradition, represented by Yan Zun, and the Wei–Jin tradition, represented by Wang Bi.
Bocheng Fan, James Brown-Kinsella
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Análisis y comparación del concepto de dao en las tres interpretaciones clásicas del Laozi

Estudios de Asia y África, 2019
Se analiza y compara el concepto de dao en los tres comentarios más influyentes del Laozi, y, en particular, cómo las distintas lecturas del dao en los tres textos se relacionan con diferentes épocas históricas, tradiciones, objetivos y autores de los ...
Filippo Costantini
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Methods of Philosophic Critique Native to the Laozi

Religions, 2023
Lao-Zhuang thought and the Laozi in particular is frequently interpreted as providing a critique of the dominant social values of its time. In English language literature, this often entails utilizing thinkers from the Western tradition of philosophic ...
Daniel Sarafinas
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Moral agent in the Laozi and Plato [PDF]

, 2020
The theory of the moral agent is the normative theory which prescribes actions following the higher authority. In this thesis, I conduct a comparative analysis of Plato and the Laozi to uncover what they say about the moral agent.
Guan, Yinlin
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The negative words and religious turn of Laozi’s Dao theory

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Besides concepts such as ‘being’ (有 [you]) and ‘non-being’ (无 [wu]), nature and the One to reveal the relationship between Dao and the phenomenal world from a positive perspective, Laozi used negative words, forming a speech system comprising ‘opposite ...
Youdong Yang
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Boundary of the Sky

Asian Studies, 2023
There are three good reasons why Daoism is a bad candidate for addressing contemporary environmental issues. First, the Laozi and Zhuangzi do not contain a concept of “nature” akin to ours today.
Paul D'Ambrosio
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Laozi e l'antica sapienza taoista

, 2021
Analisi critica edizione scientifica Laozi e riflessioni teoretiche su rapporto uomo e ...
Francesco Tomatis
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On the Interpretation of Ziran in the Three Commentaries on Laozi in the Han Dynasty

Religions
The tradition of Chinese philosophical interpretation contains an inherent tension between “objectively interpreting classics” and “subjectively constructing systems”, with three major Han Dynasty commentaries on the Laozi—Laozi Zhigui, Laozi Daodejing ...
Qing Yuan
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