Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life · Mark Linsenmayer
February 20, 202349m 57s
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Show Notes
On the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) by Laozi (ca. 500 BCE), with guest Theodore Brooks.
We talk about the wildly different, interpretive translations of this foundational Daoist (Taoist) text, its political views, and what the Dao might actually be.
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