Daodejing
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Attribuita (paternità dibattuta)
- Stato del testo:
- Testo pulito
- Estensione:
- ~10.500 parole · 50 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APALaozi. (n.d.). Daodejing. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/laozi/the-tao-teh-king-or-the-tao-and-its-characteristics
- MLALaozi. "Daodejing." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/laozi/the-tao-teh-king-or-the-tao-and-its-characteristics.
- ChicagoLaozi. Daodejing. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/laozi/the-tao-teh-king-or-the-tao-and-its-characteristics.
Di che cosa tratta
Ottantuno brevi poemi sul Tao, la via che non si può nominare: governare senza forzare, agire senza fare (wu wei), e la forza paradossale del morbido — l'acqua che vince la pietra.
Contesto e storia
La tradizione lo attribuisce a Laozi, un archivista della corte Zhou del VI secolo a.C. che, deluso, partì verso occidente e lasciò il libro al guardiano del passo di frontiera. Gli studiosi moderni vi vedono piuttosto una compilazione dei secoli IV-III a.C. Con circa cinquemila caratteri, è il fondamento del taoismo filosofico e religioso, e uno dei libri più tradotti della storia — la sua brevità enigmatica ha reso possibili mille letture, dal misticismo all'arte di governare.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul corpus.
Ch. 1. 1. The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name. 2. (Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; (conceived of as) having a name, it is the Mother of all things. 3. Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see. 4. Under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different names. Together we call them the Mystery. Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful. 2. 1. All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is; they all know the skill of the skilful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what the want of skill is. 2. So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other; that difficulty and ease produce the one (the idea of) the other; that length and shortness fashion out the one the figure of the other; that (the ideas of) height and lowness arise from the contrast of the one with the other; that the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another; and that being before and behind give the idea of one following another. 3. Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech. 4. All things spring up, and there is not one which declines to show itself; they grow, and there is no claim made for their ownership; they go through their processes, and there is no expectation (of a reward for the results). The work is accomplished, and there is no resting in it (as an achievement).…