Yuan Dao Tracing Dao to Its Source

Name: Yuan Dao Tracing Dao to Its Source
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ISBN: 9780345425683

ISBN-10: 0345425685

ISBN-13: 9780345425683

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Authors: D. C. Lau, Roger T. Ames

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Philosophical and compelling, Yuan Dao is a stunning accomplishment of Daoist literature-- now available for the first time in English Written around 140 b.c., and presented to a young Chinese Emperor by a beloved uncle--a philosopher, scholar, and patron of the arts--Yuan Dao distills and explains in one remarkable work the first several hundred years of Daoist thought. Drawing from and expanding upon the popular Tao-Te Ching and Chuang-tzu texts, this singular work was written to show the inclusionary aspects of Daoism, that one should appreciate the contribution all things make to the well-being of the whole; Yuan Dao was also created as advice to a ruler, on the beauty of uniting a…

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List price: $14.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/13/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.24" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.330

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
The Huainanzi and the Court of Emperor Wu	p. 3
Tracing Dao to Its Source: A Practicable Daoism	p. 7
"Han Thinking" and Radial Order	p. 9
The "Source" in Tracing Dao to Its Source	p. 13
A "Watery" Source	p. 17
"Dao" in Tracing Dao to Its Source	p. 19
The Priority of Situation over Agency	p. 20
Dao as "The Oneness of Things"	p. 22
"Knowing" Dao	p. 26
The Gerundical Dao	p. 27
The Continuity of Dao and the Human World	p. 28
The Relationship between "Heaven" and "Humanity"	p. 29
Confucianism and the Continuity between Heaven and Humanity	p. 30
Daoism and the Continuity between Heaven and Humanity	p. 32
Tracing Dao to Its Source and the Continuity between Heaven and Humanity	p. 36
Seizing the Moment	p. 38
Riding the Dragon	p. 41
Stilling the Heart-and-Mind	p. 44
The Efficacy of Accommodation	p. 53
On the Translation	p. 54
Notes to the Introduction	p. 55
Tracing Dao to Its Source	p. 60
Notes	p. 139
Bibliography	p. 147
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