Book400 BCE
Tao Te Ching
Laozi
Eighty-one short chapters arguing that yielding outlasts force and that the most effective action often looks like restraint.
about 45 minutes to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026Philosophy · Eastern & Comparative Philosophy
Daoism
A topic within Eastern & Comparative Philosophy, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Book350 BCE
Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi
Uses parables, dialogues and dream logic to argue that clinging to fixed distinctions between self and other, or right and wrong, is the source of suffering, and that a sage moves with change rather than resisting it.
about 7.5 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026FreeIntermediate