What Is Taoism?

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What Is Taoism? traces, in nontechnical language, the history of the development of this often baffling doctrine. Creel shows that there has not been one "Taoism, " but at least three, in some respects incompatible and often antagonistic. In eight closely related papers, Creel explicates the widely used concepts he originally introduced of "contemplative Taoism, " "purposive Taoism, " and "Hsien Taoism." He also discusses Shen Pu-hai, a political philosopher of the fourth century B.C., the curious interplay between Confucianism, Taoism, and "Legalism" in the second century B.C., and the role of the horse in Chinese history.