The Laozi, Daodejing: A Visual Interpretation

Lao Tzu

Jan 2015 · PAUL GIBSON

About this ebook

The Laozi, Daodejing (also published as The Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching) is a new translation and commentary for 2015 and beyond. Unlike many other translations, this book's commentary invites the reader into the interpretive process. It provides the reader with a look into the visuals that make up key Chinese characters in order to assist the reader in understanding its practical philosophy of Realism. The 2500 year old Chinese text is not about rights and wrongs, nor is it about trying to change the world so that it suits you. It is about how we regard value and how this sense of value may, in turn, inform ourselves. It is about how adapting ourselves to the world as it exists may make the world a better place in which all can live. It might best be regarded as self-help philosophy.

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I really like the translations

About the author

The Laozi, Daodejing (The Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching) A Visual Interpretation published in 2014, is Paul Gibson's third book. His second book is Wisdom's Hiding Place; Reaching Beyond Belief, a book of religious philosophy linking Judaism, Christianity and Daoism to philosophical realism, 2011. His first book is a novel entitled, The Oxbow Revelation, which is a fictional portrayal of a high school student who stumbles upon links between realism and religion at a time when he most needs direction, published 2009.