Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory

Ideas Explained, Book 1

De: Hans-Georg Moeller

Narrado por: Simon Barber

Hans-Georg Moeller has achieved the perfect blend with Daoism Explained. It is both a fascinating introduction on Daoist thought as well as an original and insightful contribution to Eastern philosophy. This book will take the place of The Tao of Pooh by Hoff. Like that book, Doaism Explained offers a comprehensive presentation of Daoist philosophy that is interesting and easy to follow.

The study sheds new light on many Doaist allegories by showing how modern translations often concealed the wit and humor of the Chinese original or imposed alien philosophical frameworks on them. It attempts to take away the metaphysical and Christian disguises with which Daoist philosophy has been obscured by Western interpretations in the past 100 years.

The book is published by Open Court. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks.

©2004 Carus Publishing Company (P)2019 Redwood Audiobooks

This book clears up misconceptions while really informing about & respecting The Tao.

This book filked in many gaps about the Tao for me whil being vrry entertaining & well written. 10/10

Fantastic

If the topic is of interest and you are comfortable with academic lecture type delivery it’s excellent on all fronts.

Re-Easternizing and Demystifying the Way

This is like sitting in on a university class with a professor very classically trained and practiced in using the voice. But that is about the only nod to Western classicism. In it's exhaustive clarity, this book divorced me from that, the mysticism and other notions that have grown up from the misunderstandings of various translators have inserted into their works. And I am grateful to Moeller. There are ideas I disagree with and that do not wholly line up with modern demonstratable knowledge, but that is okay within the daoist framework. Live with and use contradictions. Creativity is found in ambiguity. I am trying out the Taoist perspective because of Moeller's book.

I have downloaded audible and book of Ames and Hall's "Dao De Jing" as this, too, seems to aim at seeing daoism in a similar light, in a similar fashion.

definitely worth a second listen

very well articulated, some ideas are easier to grasp than others, I'm just gonna listen more carefully a second time around, but very much a banger.

Good book good narrator pronunciation slightly off.

The narrator's pronunciation was good overall but a bit off. Chinese romanization can be confusing but sticking to standard Pinyin can help. Shi=sure Xi=she etc...