LAO TZU - Tao Te Ching (Classics)

Harmondsworth, England, Penguin, 1979. Reprint, Binding: Soft Cover, Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Duodecimo 014044131X Paperback Paperback. Tao Te Ching. Slight wear to spine. Couple of small creases to back cover. The Lao Tzu, as it is usually called, is the principal classic in the thought of Taoism. Traditionally ascribed to one Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius, the work is more probably an anthology of wise sayins compiled in about the fourth century B.C. As a treatise both on personal conduct and on government it is moral rather than mystical in tone, and advances a philosophy of meekness as the surest pasth to survivial. In the clear English of D. C. Lau's new translation this famous Chinese book can be enjoyed especially for its pure poetry. 192 pp.