The Metaphysical Society - Confucius, Lao Tzu, and Chinese Philosophy

Confucius, Lao Tzu,
and Chinese Philosophy

Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Crispin Sartwell
Narrator: Lynn Redgrave
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes (Unabridged)
Download Price: $8.99
Format: Encoded Windows Media
© 2006 Blackstone Audio Inc

China's two greatest philosophers, Confucius and Lao Tzu, were intensely interested in how we should live and how a good society is governed.

The central concepts of Confucianism are li, the proper ordering of society through rituals and ceremonies, and zhen, the proper ordering of the self through humaneness, benevolence, and love.

Daoism, taught under such masters as Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi, meditates on the interdependence of opposites and teaches the path of non-resistance. Westerners are only now beginning to understand the central importance of the tradition and community emphasized in Chinese thought for over two thousand years.

The World of Philosophy series is a dramatic presentation, in understandable language, of the concerns, questions, interests, and overall outlook of the world's great philosophers and philosophical traditions. Special emphasis on clear and relevant explanations gives you a new arsenal of insights toward living
a better life.

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
-- Albert Einstein

"Seek and 'ye shall find, knock and the door will be opened, ask and it shall be given unto thee."
--A Biblical Passage

"The true understanding of both the Creator and the creation is considered to be the transcendental or metaphysical knowledge."
-- Bhagavad Gita

"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
-- Isaac Newton