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Ancient Wisdoms for Modern Crises

Learning from Laozi's "Daodejing"
  • ISBN-13: 9781626712959
  • Publisher: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Steve Hallett
  • Price: AUD $74.99
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  • Local release date: 16/05/2026
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 225 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Oriental & Indian philosophy [HPDF]
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We live in a time of abundance and comfort for some, scarcity and hardship for others-a period that seems to have all of us teetering on the brink. Certainly, there is no lack of modern crises, but do we possess the wisdom to overcome them, and where might we seek that wisdom? Ancient Wisdoms for Modern Crises: Learning From Laozi's "Daodejing" looks to the Daodejing, a text written during the late Zhou Dynasty (600-400 BCE), for guidance. One of the core treatises of Eastern philosophy, it advocates humility, simplicity, and sustainable living. As both a personal and political philosophy, it is radically gentle, encouraging readers to embrace humility, modesty, compassion, and selflessness while simultaneously resisting the urge to conquer, control, and dominate-teachings that can help each of us navigate contemporary life. Finding solutions to such difficult problems requires all the wisdom, ancient and modern, that humans can muster. Replete with the author's fresh translation of the eighty-one-verse Daodejing, this book touches on topics ranging from environmentalism and human suffering to biodiversity loss and the rise of authoritarianism in an effort to forge a more restrained, sustainable, just, supportive, and compassionate society.
Steve Hallett is a professor of horticulture at Purdue University and teaches classes on sustainability, environmental science, and food justice. He is the cofounder of the Purdue University Student Farm and the Sustainable Food and Farming Systems degree program. Hallett is an award-winning teacher listed in Purdue's Book of Great Teachers and a member of its Teaching Academy. He is the author of Life Without Oil, The Efficiency Trap, and A Life for a Life.
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