淮南子 by An Liu

"淮南子" by An Liu is a philosophical text compiled before 139 BCE from scholarly debates at Liu An's court. This handbook for enlightened rulers attempts to define perfect socio-political order through synthesizing Taoist, Legalist, Confucian, and Mohist concepts while favoring a less active sovereign. The twenty-one chapters range across religion, history, astronomy, geography, philosophy, and politics, drawing heavily from the Zhuangzi and advocating wuwei nonaction against the Han dynasty's growing centralized government. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Liu, An, 180 BCE-123 BCE
Title 淮南子
Alternate Title Huainan Zi
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huainanzi
Credits Produced by Xiang-Ru Huang
Language Chinese
LoC Class BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
Subject Taoism -- China
Subject Philosophy, Chinese -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D.
Category Text
eBook-No. 24059
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Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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