The Complete Tao Te Ching With the Four Canons of the Yellow Emperor
by Laozi; Levi, Jean; Gladding, JodyFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-01-27
Publisher(s): Inner Traditions
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Summary
Originally published in French under title: Le Lao-tseu suivi des Quatre Canons de l'empereur Jaune. Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 2009.
Author Biography
Jean Levi, a renowned scholar of classical Chinese literature and culture, studied at the University of Beijing and the University of Fudan as well as in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution. A director of research at the National Center of Scientific Research in France, he has written a number of books on Confucius, Chuang Tzu, and Taoist philosophy as well as a series of historical novels set in ancient China, including The Chinese Emperor, which won the Goncourt Prize for historical fiction. He lives in Paris, France.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Way and the Law | p. 3 |
| Taoist Philosophy and the Tao Te Ching | p. 8 |
| The One and the Many: Content and Form of the Tao Te Ching | p. 23 |
| The Emptiness of the Sovereign and the Asceticism of the Yellow Emperor | p. 28 |
| Notes on the Translation from the Chinese | p. 31 |
| Tao Te Ching: The Book of the Way and of Virtue | |
| The Book of Virtue | p. 43 |
| The Book of the Way | p. 71 |
| The Four Canons of the Yellow Emperor | |
| On the Law as Principle | p. 97 |
| The Law Way | p. 97 |
| The Good Order of a Country | p. 100 |
| The Regulatory Power of the Sovereign | p. 102 |
| The Six Alternatives: Aberrations vs. Normalities | p. 106 |
| The Four Rules: Being Calm, Regulated, Civil, and Martial | p. 112 |
| Evaluations | p. 116 |
| Factors of Ruin | p. 121 |
| Summary of the Great Principles | p. 125 |
| Standards and Names | p. 127 |
| The Great Canonical Rules | p. 131 |
| Instituting the Mandate | p. 131 |
| Inspection | p. 133 |
| The Five Regulations | p. 137 |
| Child of Truth | p. 141 |
| Quelling Disturbances | p. 143 |
| Fighting between Clans | p. 147 |
| The Attitude of the Hen and the Rooster | p. 149 |
| The Face of War | p. 150 |
| Proven Laws | p. 151 |
| The Three Prohibitions | p. 153 |
| The Reason for Punitive Expeditions | p. 154 |
| Priority Methods | p. 155 |
| Rules of Conduct | p. 157 |
| The Way of Submission | p. 158 |
| Aphorisms | p. 163 |
| The Original Way | p. 175 |
| Index | p. 179 |
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