• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: The Metaphysical Polemics of the Tao Te Ching: An Attempt to Integrate the Ethics and Metaphysics of Lao Tzu
  • Beteiligte: Roberts, Moss
  • Erschienen: American Oriental Society, 1975
  • Erschienen in: Journal of the American Oriental Society
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 0003-0279
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  • Beschreibung: <p>The Confucian self seeks to determine the development of the other (men or phenomena) and sees this as a harmonious realization. But to Lao tzu this action of the self upon the other is destructive, and he seeks to eliminate the effect of the self, envisioning the liberation of the myriad species for their independent individual development. The Tao te ching's argument has ethical, economic, metaphysical and other aspects.</p>