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| Document Type(s): | Book Chapter |
| Book Title: | Earth Might be Fair: Reflections on Ethics, Religion and Ecology |
| Article/Chapter Title: | Tao Now: An Ecological Testament |
| Editor(s): | Barbour, Ian G |
| Author(s): | Smith, Huston |
| Religion(s): | Taoism |
| Publisher Name: | Prentice-Hall Inc. |
| Place of Publication: | Englewood Cliffs, N.J. |
| Date of Publication: | 1972 |
| Pages: | 62-82 |
| Annotation: | Calling for a new consciousness to undergird environmental calls to action, Smith does not recommend beginning from a tabula rasa but rather prefers to look to our ancestors for guidance. He contrasts Western Hebraic/Hellenic epistemologies that distance humans from nature with Chinese cosmology and a Taoist metaphysics of unity and divine ecology. Warning against the danger of misinterpreting Taoism as quietism, Smith describes Tao-identification, the fundamental concept of wu wei (no action), as having been interpreted as emergence from a place beyond the self/other divide. |
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