The Canon of Reason and Virtue

by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (Editor), PaulCarus (Editor), Lao - Tze (Author)

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  1974

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  The philosophy of Lao-Tze is consciously paradoxical and poetic: therapeutic and deconstructional rather than analytic. It offers a guide to practical action which verges on mysticism: how to exercise strength without needing to be strong, how to win by yielding. Lao-Tze's exhortation to act while not-acting or 'doing nothing' has astonished and fascinated Chinese and Westerners alike.