What can we expect from the study of Chinese philosophy ?" In the philosophical systems of the Hindoos and the Chinese there are still hidden treasures, in which the anticipation of scientific discoveries, the results of thousands of years of occidental research, is most striking... "

Any study of Dàoism is a paradox. The first line of the Dàodé Jīng declares: "The way that can be spoken of is not the constant way." This inherent contradiction—attempting to define the indefinable—lies at the heart of the tradition. Yet it is precisely this tension that makes Dàoism so rich and enduring.Born in the tumultuous Warring States Period, Dàoism emerged as the mystical counterpart to Confucianism, looking beyond social convention to the unnameable principle of the cosmo...