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The Origin of the Integration of the Yijing and the Laozi: Yan Zun’s Laozi Zhigui and Its Philosophical Construction and Historical Impact

Religions
Yan Zun’s Laozi Zhigui is the earliest surviving commentary that systematically interprets the Laozi through the lens of the Yijing. It holds pioneering significance in the history of Laozi studies and intellectual history.
Yujie Zhang, Qing Yuan
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Inversion and Interconversion: A Comparative Study on the Negative Dimension of Adorno’s Inverse Theology and Pre-Qin Daoist Thought

Religions, 2022
Negativity is an important dimension in both Adorno’s inverse theology and the theological thought of pre-Qin Daoism. Firstly, both have a negative thinking and approach.
Feng Tao
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Notes on the Laozi and Yan Fu’s Theory of Dao

Religions, 2023
In his Notes on the Laozi, Yan Fu constructs a new and unique theory of Dao that incorporates ideas from both Chinese and Western philosophies. Yan’s Dao is a unity of the physical and the metaphysical.
Suixin Zheng
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Mastering the Body: Reading a Discourse of Embodiment in the Zhuangzi

Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.
ABSTRACT The Zhuangzi is one of the most well‐known early Chinese classics. Subversive and iconoclastic, both in terms of its subject matter and narrative style, the text has profoundly influenced the intellectual and literary history of East Asia. First introduced to the West in the late nineteenth century as an early “Daoist” classic, the Zhuangzi ...
Lana Ko
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Environmentalism From a Confucian Perspective: Record of a Roundtable Discussion

The Philosophical Forum, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 76-83, Autumn (Fall) 2025.
ABSTRACT The 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” is an online academic forum that hosts a range of lectures, book discussions and roundtables each year, creating a space for collaboration, as well as bringing different opinions into a conversation. The roundtable on “Environmentalism” aligned with the forum's aims, bringing together three prominent scholars ...
Agne Veisaite, Vytis Silius
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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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Touch and Breath

Asian Studies
“Become hard!” is the supposedly “new tablet” that Nietzsche’s Zarathustra has placed above us. It can hardly be denied that modernization in particular has relentlessly imposed a need to develop one’s hardness and strength.
Fabian Heubel
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Transcendental Time and Empirical Time: Two Types of Time and Their Internal Connection in the Laozi

Religions, 2023
The concept of time in Laozi’s philosophy is more complicated than it appears. Its complexity stems from the fact that there are two distinct concepts of time: the temporality of empirical things, which is constructed as a finitely continuous temporal ...
Zhongjiang Wang, Qiuhong Li
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The Ethical Implications of the Sage’s way of Laozi

, 2022
The Sage’s way of Laozi contains opulent ethical thoughts, which takes “the ways of Tao by the Self-so” as a universal ethical principle, presenting a transcendental cosmological ethics, Laozi postulated an ideal moral personality of the Sage and ...
XIAO, Gang
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Yan Zun’s Approach to Resolving Contradictions in Laozi’s Theory of the Dao: An Analysis of the Laozi Zhigui

Religions
The Laozi Zhigui of Yan Zun occupies an important place in the history of interpretation of the Laozi, and his thoughts had an enormous influence on the xuanxue scholars of the Wei-Jin period afterward.
Rui Li
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