1. Daodejing and Zhuangzi
The Daode jing 道徳書
How does the Daode jing begin? What aspects of dao are illustrated? (ch. 1, 37)
How would the sage rule? (52, etc.)
Look at chapters 4, 8, 10, 14. (52-3)
What do they tell you about dao?
What is the point of chapters 18 and 19? (55)
What is the significance of “the uncarved block” of ch. 32 (57)?
How does the principle of yin/yang relate to dao?
How is the image of water used in ch. 78?
Can you define virtue (de) as presented by the Daode jing?
What would you say is required of a “Daoist”?
12 September 2005
Daodejing and Zhuangzi

2. Daodejing and Zhuangzi
How does the Zhuangzi differ from the Daodejing?
How does its vision of governance and rule compare with that of the Daodejing?
What is the stance of the Zhuangzi toward Education?
How does the Chinese (Confucian) conception of the gentleman compare to the sage of the Zhuangzi?
What are the points of the following stories:
The large tree? (68)
“three in the morning”? (70)
The butterfly? (73)
Prince Wen-hui’s cook? (74)
Why is the issue of mourning addressed? (75)
What seems to be the goal of of the Daoism Zhuang Zhou? Or, how does one be a good Daoist?
12 September 2005
Daodejing and Zhuangzi