The Ethical Ideal of Renunciation a Thesis (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Ethical Ideal of Renunciation a Thesis (Classic Reprint) written by Cordie Jacob Culp and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ethical Ideal of Renunciation a Thesis Its existence is non-existence, its fullness is emptiness, its brightness is darkness and its progress is retrogression.7 Such paradoxical illustrations as these serve to show the nihilism which lies at the heart of the system, the most definite as sertion of which occurs in the 37th chapter of the first part of the tao-teh-king where Laotze declares: The Tao in its regular course does nothing and so there is nothing which it can not do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.