This is a profoundly beautiful volume. It provides an eloquent and poetic rendering of the Dao De Jing through the lens of Whiteheadian, process-relational philosophy. The text of this ancient Daoist classic is typically attributed to a single individual, Laozi (“Old Man”), who is thought to have been a keeper of archives at Chou and wrote it in order that he be allowed to leave and to proceed through the Han-Ku Pass by its keeper, Yin Xi. However, the Dao De Jing is perhaps more accurately thought of as an anthology of “wisdom-metaphors” that was put together either by thinkers (or even by villagers) of the Warring States period in China (around 500–400 BCE) in order to try to temper the ongoing atrocities being carried out at the bequest of various rulers. Pointing to its global importance, the Dao De Jing is one chief foundational source of a major philosophical...

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