Rainey Decoding Dao

Reading the Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching) and the Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-46567-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Written by a leading authority on Chinese philosophy,Decoding Dao uniquely focuses on the core texts in Daoistphilosophy, providing readers with a user-friendly introductionthat unravels the complexities of these seminal volumes.
* Offers a detailed introduction to the core texts in Daoistphilosophy, the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi, two ofthe most widely read - and most challenging - texts inChina's long literary history
* Covers the three main ways the texts can be read: as religious,mystical, and philosophical works
* Explores their historical context, origins, authorship, and thereasons these seminal texts came into being, along with the keyterms and approaches they take
* Examines the core philosophical arguments made in the texts, aswell as the many ways in which they have been interpreted, both inChina itself and in the West
* Provides readers with an unrivalled insight into themultifaceted philosophy of Daoism - and the principlesunderlying much of Chinese culture - informed by the verylatest academic scholarship

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rainey, Lee Dian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Book Notes x
Chronology xi
Section One: The Context
Chapter One The Social and Political Background--Confucianism--Mozi and Mohism (Moe-ds) and(Moe-ism)--Yang Zhu and Shen Dao (Ya-ahng, Jew)--Language and Logicians--Trends During the Warring StatesEra--Cultural Heroes and Concepts--Summary 3
Section Two: Authors and Texts
Chapter Two The Dao De Jing--Why Does the Dao DeJing/Tao Te Ching/Laozi/Lao Tzu Have So Many Names?-- Dao DeJing, The Author--Dao De Jing, the Text--The Dao De Jing,the Style of the Text--The Dao De Jing in the West-- TheZhuangzi, the Author--The Zhuangzi, the Text--The
Zhuangzi, the Style of the Text--The Zhuangzi in theWest--Issues in Translation--Summary
27
Chapter Three The Dao? A Dao? Dao? daos?dao?--Images: 49
Water, Women, Baby, Root, and Others--What Is theProblem?--Conventional Values: Pairs of Opposites-- Beingand Non-Being--Summary
Chapter Four IllogicalStatements?--Decoding--Not Acting, Not Knowing, NotDesiring--Ziran, Self-So, Natural,Spontaneous--Language--Morality--Summary 70
Chapter Five War--Government, Society, and the Sage-Ruler--The Golden Age--Advice for Would-BeSages--Losing dao--Summary 90
Chapter Six What Is theProblem?--Anti-Confucians-- Anti-Mohists--BeingUseless--Point of View--This and That--KnowingHow--Knowing What--Summary 111
Chapter Seven Language: Convention andCulture--This/ That, True/False--Language Is OK, Up to aPoint-- How to Use Language--Clarity--Death--Transformation--Survival of Consciousness and anAfterlife--Immortality--Dao--Summary 132
Chapter Eight Public Life--The Golden Age--WhatShould We Do?--Mirror--Forgetting--Mind/HeartFasting--Perfected People--The Relationship of the Dao DeJing and the Zhuangzi--Summary 156
Section Three: Developing Dao
Chapter Nine The School of Zhuangzi and Followers of theDao De Jing--The Han Feizi--The Guanzi--Huang-Lao--The Huainanzi--The Liezi--The Han Dynasty andBeyond--Summary
179
Chapter Ten Organized Daoism--The Search forImmortality--Organized Groups--The Cult of Laozi--Modern Organized Daoism--The Mystical Reading-- ThePhilosophical Reading--Modern Daoism--Dao Lite--ALao-Zhuang Daoist--What Is Daoism and Other Problems 202
Glossary of Technical Terms 232
Glossary of Pronunciation 235
Further Reading 237
Bibliography 239
Index 252

Über Autor(innen)

Lee Dian Rainey is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. She has taught Chinese philosophy for more than twenty years and has published widely in this area. Her publications include Confucius and Confucianism: The Essentials (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).