Reviews

The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism: Zhuangzi's Unique Moral Vision by Jung H. Lee

stricker's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

I learned a lot about Daoism from this book and it gave me a better perspective about the thought and action process of some in the Far East.  The only negative was the dense language used through much of the book which made it pretty hard to process.  For example, at one point the author states, "I hope to demonstrate through this mapping of the ideological geography of the 'Syncretist Chapters' how the history of early Daoism has proceeded by 'recursive loops', taking up its past like a 'bundle under its arm in order to travel farther toward new horizons', how the unifying normative vision of early Daoism gets translated, revised, and reformulated in seemingly unexpected ways."

It is a lot to digest the information without having to parce the language used at the same time.