Philosopher

Laozi

Overview

6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Works by Laozi you can read

• The Tao Teh King

Philosophers who discussed Laozi

• Zhuang Zhou
• Simone Weil
• Zhuangzi (book)
• Mozi
• Wang Bi
• The Buddha
• Baruch Spinoza
• Confucius
• Islam
• Hu Shih
• Wang Chong
• Osho
• He Yan
• Cho Sik
• Ionel Gherea

Ideas Laozi discusses

• Fresco
• Friedrich Hayek
• Anarchism
• Book of Rites
• Ziran
• Samadhi
• Chinese folk religion
• Cato Institute
• Zhuang Zhou
• Luoyang
• Spring and Autumn period
• Shiji
• Zhuangzi (book)
• Yuan dynasty
• Warring States period
• Mencius
• Murray Rothbard
• Sage (philosophy)
• Chinese Buddhism
• Reincarnation
• Sima Qian
• Tamil Nadu
• Taoism
• Libertarianism

Place in the tradition

Part of Anarchism.

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