书名：Tao Te Ching 道德经

作者：Lao Tzu老子
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2015
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451530400
商品尺寸：10.6 x 1.1 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：176 （以实物为准）
Tao Te Ching《道德经》是春秋时期老子（李耳）的哲学作品，又称《道德真经》《老子》《五千言》《老子五千文》，是中国古代先秦诸子分家前的一部著作，为其时诸子所共仰，是道家哲学思想的重要来源。《道德经》文本以哲学意义之“道德”为纲宗，论述修身、治国、用兵、养生之道，而多以政治为旨归，乃所谓“内圣外王”之学，文意深奥，包涵广博，被誉为万经之王。

《道德经》是中国历史上伟大的名著之一，对传统哲学、科学、政治、宗教等产生了深刻影响。据联合国教科文组织统计，《道德经》是除了《圣经》以外被译成外国文字发布量很多的文化名著。
本书为Signet Classics推出的英文版，由R. B. Blakney写导言和作翻译，Richard John Lynn写后记，书本轻巧便携。

Tao Te Ching is ancient China’s great contribution to the literature of philosophy, religion, and mysticism.
Tao Te Ching contains the time-honored teachings of Taoism and brings a message of living simply, finding contentment with a minimum of comfort, and prizing culture above all else.
This is the lauded translation of the eighty-one poems constituting an Eastern classic, the mystical and moral teachings of which have profoundly influenced the sacred scriptures of many religions—and the lives and happiness of countless men and women through the centuries.
Translated and with an Introduction by R. B. Blakney
and an Afterword by Richard John Lynn
Review
“Jonathan Star's Tao Te Ching achieves the essential: It clarifies the meaning of the text without in the slightest reducing its mystery. This superb work enables readers to search for their own understanding of the Tao Te Ching, under the guiding hand of Star's admirable scholarship.”

“It would be hard to find a fresh approach to a text that ranks only behind the Bible as the most widely translated book in the world, but Star achieves that goal. As fascinating to the casual scholar as it is for the serious student.”
《道德经》，又称《道德真经》《老子》《五千言》《老子五千文》，文本以哲学意义之“道德”为纲宗，论述修身、治国、用兵、养生之道，而多以政治为旨归，乃所谓“内圣外王”之学，文意深奥，包涵广博，被华夏先辈誉为万经之王。“道法自然”是《道德经》中老子思想的精华。“道”作为《道德经》中抽象的概念范畴，是天地万物生成的动力源。“德”是“道”在伦常领域的发展与表现。“道”与“法”在规则、常理层面有相通点，但不同于西方自然法。“法”应效法自然之道，在辨证的反向转化之中发挥其作用。

老子，姓李名耳，字聃，一字或曰谥伯阳。汉族，楚国苦县历乡曲仁里（今中国河南省鹿邑县太清宫镇）人，约生活于前571年至471年之间。是中国古代伟大的哲学家和思想家、道家学派创始人，被唐朝帝王追认为李姓始祖。

Lao-Tzu (also known as Laozi or Lao-Tze)was a Chinese philosopher credited with founding the philosophical system of Taoism. He is best known as the author of the Tao-Te-Ching, the work which exemplifies his thought. The name by which he is known is not a personal name but an honorific title meaning ‘Old Man’ or ‘Old Teacher’ and there has been countless speculation as to whether an individual by that name ever existed or whether Lao-Tzu is an amalgam of many different philosophers. The historian Durant writes, “Lao-Tze, greatest of the pre-Confucian philosophers, was wiser than Teng Shih; he knew the wisdom of silence, and lived, we may be sure, to a ripe old age—though we are not sure that he lived at all” (652). If he did exist, he is thought to have lived in the 6th century BCE.

R. B. Blakney, past president of Olivet College, former missionary and teacher in China, and author of many volumes on Eastern religions, made this splendid translation of a great gem of Chinese religion and provided an illuminating interpretative commentary.

Richard John Lynn is Professor Emeritus of Chinese Thought and Literature, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. His books include Chinese Literature: A Draft Bibliography in Western European Languages, Guide to Chinese Poetry and Drama, and The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi. He is the editor of James J. Y. Liu’s Language—Paradox—Poetics: A Chinese Perspective.
Somewhat more than a millennium before Christ, a people known as the Shang or Yin lived along the Yellow River in north central China. Of their origin and history very little is known certainly, except that their civilization was relatively old and rich, and finally effete. They left abundant evidence of great technical skill in casting bronze, of their artistry in pottery and of their ingenuity in the creation of written words which are the direct ancestors of modern Chinese characters. From inscriptions on bone and bronze, the names of some of their kings are known and also the nature of their divination.

About 1100 B.C., they were conquered by a neighboring people. known as the Chou, for whom the Chou dynasty, the longest in Chinese history, is named. The fame of the Chou rests chiefly on the development of an extensive written literature and on the fresh, original thinking of philosophers and investigators of first rank: Confucius, Mencius, Chuang Chou, and the writers of the poems in the Tao Te Ching, not to mention others, less decisive, but not less able in their way.