num_pages: 216
description: 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.
language: Chinese
title: The Canon of Reason and Virtue
titlecomplete: The Canon of Reason and Virtue (English and Chinese Edition)
genres: Spirituality, Classics, China, Philosophy, Religion, Self Help, Taoism, Eastern Philosophy, Nonfiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 151487
publisher: Open Court