The Dao of civilization : a letter to China / Freya Mathews.
The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting its own civilization in accordance with its indigenous tap-root: Dao.
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2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- PART I A Philosopher's Letter to President Xi Jinping: on the Meaning of Greatness
- Part II By the Law of the Living Cosmos: Shanghai Lectures on Ecological Civilization
- Introduction
- 1. What is wrong with the Western worldview? Is dualism the problem?
- 2. Is overcoming dualism enough? Or is a holistic perspective also required?
- 3. But is holistic theory even possible? What does it mean to know the world holistically?
- 4. Do we need to reinvent praxis to create an ecological civilization?
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- General Bibliography
- Index