Decoding Dao : Reading the Dao de Jing (Tao Te Ching) and the Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu).

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Book Notes -- Chronology -- 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 States Era -- Cultural Heroes and Concepts -- Summary -- Section Two: AUTHORS AND TEXTS -- Chapter Two -- The Dao De Jing -- Why Does the Dao De Jing/Tao Te Ching/Laozi/Lao Tzu Have So Many Names? -- Dao De Jing, The Author -- Dao De Jing, the Text -- The Dao De Jing, the Style of the Text -- The Dao De Jing in the West -- The Zhuangzi, the Author -- The Zhuangzi, the Text -- The Zhuangzi, the Style of the Text -- The Zhuangzi in the West -- Issues in Translation -- Summary -- Chapter Three -- The Dao? A Dao? Dao? daos? dao? -- Images: Water, Women, Baby, Root, and Others -- What Is the Problem? -- Conventional Values: Pairs of Opposites -- Being and Non-Being -- Summary -- Chapter Four -- Illogical Statements? -- Decoding -- Not Acting, Not Knowing, Not Desiring -- Ziran, Self-So, Natural, Spontaneous -- Language -- Morality -- Summary -- Chapter Five -- War -- Government, Society, and the Sage-Ruler -- The Golden Age -- Advice for Would-Be Sages -- Losing dao -- Summary -- Chapter Six -- What Is the Problem? -- Anti-Confucians -- Anti-Mohists -- Being Useless -- Point of View -- This and That -- Knowing How -- Knowing What -- Summary -- Chapter Seven -- Language: Convention and Culture -- This/That, True/False -- Language Is OK, Up to a Point -- How to Use Language -- Clarity -- Death -- Transformation -- Survival of Consciousness and an Afterlife -- Immortality -- Dao -- Summary -- Chapter Eight -- Public Life -- The Golden Age -- What Should We Do? -- Mirror -- Forgetting -- Mind/Heart Fasting -- Perfected People.

The Relationship of the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi -- Summary -- Section Three: DEVELOPING DAO -- Chapter Nine -- The School of Zhuangzi and Followers of the Dao De Jing -- The Han Feizi -- The Guanzi -- Huang-Lao -- The Huainanzi -- The Liezi -- The Han Dynasty and Beyond -- Summary -- Chapter Ten -- Organized Daoism -- The Search for Immortality -- Organized Groups -- The Cult of Laozi -- Modern Organized Daoism -- The Mystical Reading -- The Philosophical Reading -- Modern Daoism -- Dao Lite52 -- A Lao-Zhuang Daoist -- What Is Daoism and Other Problems -- Glossary of Technical Terms -- Glossary of Pronunciation -- Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index.

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