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What Is Taoism? traces, in nontechnical language, the history of the development of this often baffling doctrine. Creel shows that there has not been one Taoism, but at least three, in some respects incompatible and often antagonistic. In eight closely related papers, Creel explicates the widely used concepts he originally introduced of contemplative Taoism, purposive Taoism, and Hsien Taoism. He also discusses Shen Pu-hai, a political philosopher of the fourth century B.C.; the curious interplay between Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism in the second century B.C.; and the role of the horse in Chinese history.

What Is Taoism

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    A Paperback / softback by Herrlee Glessner Creel

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 15 September 1982
      ISBN-13 9780226120478
      978-0226120478
      ISBN-10 0226120473
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      Book Synopsis
      What Is Taoism? traces, in nontechnical language, the history of the development of this often baffling doctrine. Creel shows that there has not been one Taoism, but at least three, in some respects incompatible and often antagonistic. In eight closely related papers, Creel explicates the widely used concepts he originally introduced of contemplative Taoism, purposive Taoism, and Hsien Taoism. He also discusses Shen Pu-hai, a political philosopher of the fourth century B.C.; the curious interplay between Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism in the second century B.C.; and the role of the horse in Chinese history.

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