The Laozi and the Cosmogonic Turn in Classical Chinese Philosophy

• Main Author: Perkins, Franklin
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Laozi; Cosmogony
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83772; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42807
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the past several decades, our understanding of the Laozi has been revolutionized by the discovery of new textual materials. While research has focused on various manuscript copies, the discovery of other cosmogonic texts dated to the late fourth century BC indicate that the Laozi was not as uniqu...