Yuan Dao: Tracing Dao to Its Source (Classics of Ancient China) 0345425685, 9780345425683
In this masterly and first-ever translation of the Taoist text from the Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) known as Yuan
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English Pages 160 [80] Year 1998
Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Huainanzi and the Court of Emperor Wu
Tracing Dao to Its Source: A Practicable Daoism
“Han Thinking” and Radial Order
The “Source” in Tracing Dao to Its Source
A “Watery” Source
“Dao” in Tracing Dao to Its Source
The Priority of Situation over Agency
Dag as “The Oneness of Things”
“Knowing” Dao
The Gerundical Dao
The Continuity of Dao and the Human World
The Relationship between “Heaven” and “Humanity”
Confucianism and the Continuity between Heaven
and Humanity
Daoism and the Continuity between Heaven and
Humanity
Tracing Dao to Its Source and the Continuity between
Heaven and Humanity
Seizing the Moment
Riding the Dragon (Jorg fi )
Stilling the Heart-and-Mind (xin {» )
The Efficacy of Accommodation
On the Translation
Notes to the Introduction
Tracing Dao to Its Source
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Huainanzi and the Court of Emperor Wu
Tracing Dao to Its Source: A Practicable Daoism
“Han Thinking” and Radial Order
The “Source” in Tracing Dao to Its Source
A “Watery” Source
“Dao” in Tracing Dao to Its Source
The Priority of Situation over Agency
Dag as “The Oneness of Things”
“Knowing” Dao
The Gerundical Dao
The Continuity of Dao and the Human World
The Relationship between “Heaven” and “Humanity”
Confucianism and the Continuity between Heaven
and Humanity
Daoism and the Continuity between Heaven and
Humanity
Tracing Dao to Its Source and the Continuity between
Heaven and Humanity
Seizing the Moment
Riding the Dragon (Jorg fi )
Stilling the Heart-and-Mind (xin {» )
The Efficacy of Accommodation
On the Translation
Notes to the Introduction
Tracing Dao to Its Source
Notes
Bibliography
