Laozi Philosophy Dialectical Thought and Its Modern Significance

Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 2:263-267 (2008)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

1, this article chooses three famous sayings, discusses the laozi philosophy the dialectical thought and its modern significance. And the suggestion, the philosophy needs to make the contribution for the world peace 2, the atomic bomb and the violence, threaten humanity's life, is this century characteristic. The science is developed, the humanity has not obtained the perfect happiness, on the contrary actually is the threat which the world trend perishes. Take this fact as the example, has proven the Laozi "为学日益,为道日 损." Dialectical thought. 3, "民不畏死,奈何以死惧之" Laozi speech, its meaning is, regarding the death, feared with did not fear, is relative, may transform. Resolves the contradiction with the military force, died threatens others, if others do not fear death, you do not have themeans. Explained person's will, it cannot use the military force to conquer. Must solve the various countries dispute, is impossible with the military force. 4, the Laozi thought what the world is weakest is the water, it may have the flood tremendous strength, is because has an invariable intention. Always unceasingly flows, achieved the horizontal position, or the condition is tranquil, only then stops. But the humanity similarly has one forever invariable intention, is requests the equality, request peace. Therefore people's intention, is the invincible tremendous strength. This is a truth.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,423

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

老子哲学的辩证思想及其现代意义 (献给当代世界的几句老子名言).Xia Jingqing - 2008 - Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 21:143-150.
On Laozi’s Dao—An Attempt to Make Philosophy Speak Chinese.Ruohui Li - 2011 - Frontiers of Philosophy in China 6 (1):1-19.
孔子为什么叹息?老子为什么隐居?迦牟尼为什么放弃王位?.Li Peihua & Jin Miaozi - 2008 - Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 2:257-261.
Laozi's Discourse on the Way and Its Significance Today.Mou Zhongjian - 1998 - Contemporary Chinese Thought 30 (1):75-97.
The Guodian Laozi: proceedings of the International Conference, Dartmouth College, May 1998.Sarah Allan & Crispin Williams (eds.) - 2000 - Berkeley, Calif.: Society for the Study of Early China and Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California.
The abduction of vagueness: Interpreting the.Steve Coutinho - 2002 - Philosophy East and West 52 (4):409-425.
What’s in a Dao?: Ontology and Semiotics in Laozi and Zhuangzi.Daniel Fried - 2012 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 11 (4):419-436.
Governing Through the Dao: A Non-Anarchistic Interpretation of the Laozi. [REVIEW]Alex Feldt - 2010 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 9 (3):323-337.
The darker side of daoist primitivism.Hagop Sarkissian - 2010 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 37 (2):312-329.
Hegel's criticism of laozi and its implications.Wong Kwok Kui - 2011 - Philosophy East and West 61 (1):56-79.
Chinese Philosophy through a Prism of Its Classical Ontological Conception in the Future Global Context.Marina Čarnogurská - 2007 - The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 7:157-160.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-04-04

Downloads
41 (#380,229)

6 months
6 (#512,819)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references