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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Tao te Ching"”.
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LANGUAGE, CONTEXT AND IDEOLOGY IN THE TAO TE CHING
… dissertation rests on the premiss that through textual analysis, one can derive a better understanding of a text. For textual analysis to be thorough, the language, context and ideology of the text must be closely examined. In applying the above principles to understanding the Tao Te Ching, the …
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LÜ DONGBIN und sein LAOZI-Kommentar
Magisterarbeit eingereicht an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Johann W. Goethe Universität in Frankfurt/Main, April 1984. Die Arbeit behandelt die vermeintlich dem daoistischen Meister Lü Dongbin (Tang-Dynastie) zugeschriebenen Kommentare zum Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching, Laozi, Lao-Tzu). Diese …
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Taoism and Contemporary Environmental Literature
This thesis encompasses a survey of contemporary environmental literature (1970s to the present) as it relates to the tenets of Taoist literature, specifically the Chuang Tzu and the Tao te Ching. The thesis also presents and evaluates pertinent criticisms concerning the practice of relating modern …
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The Silver Fraction - A Weathered Inebriation: Plans, Elevations, Sections, Details, Models and Texts for a Brewery and a Biergarten on the bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria, Virginia
Architecture is an exhaustive act. With the Herculean efforts of the patron, the architect and the builder, a building comes into being. Materials are collected and transformed in order to create a place for Man to dwell. That is, materials occurring in their natural state are transformed by the …
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Psychedelics and Religious Insight: A Precedent in American Psycho-Spirituality from William James to Timothy Leary
… stress that there is a relationship between the texts one reads and the psychedelic experiences one may have. Reading texts has an effect on set and setting with respect to psychedelic experiences. Further, texts read—by figures like Timothy Leary—in the afterglow of a psychedelic experience can …