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Translated by Roger T. Ames & David L. Hall - Narrated by Ralph Lowenstein - Abridged Nonfiction - 3 CASSETTES - 3 hours, 45 minutes

Publisher, Audio Partners (April 2003)

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The first translation of the classic Chinese philosophical text to include the newly discovered Guodian scrolls. In 1993 archaelogists in Goudian, China, found 16 texts written on bamboo strips, including three versions of the primary Daoist text, the Dao De Jing. Dating to 300 BC, they are more than 125 years older than the previously oldest known version and differ in important ways.

Daoism, as this philosophy came to be known, set forth a series of maxims that outlined a new perspective on reality and invited readers to embark on a regimen of self-cultivation. This luminous new translation brings the timeless wisdom of the Dao De Jing into our contemporary world. The authors’ commentary on the history, philosophy, and interpretation are essential to the context of this essential classic.

About the Author: Roger T. Ames is a professor of Chinese philosophy at the University of Hawaii where he also directs its Center for Chinese Studies. He is the translator of Sun-Tzu: The Art of Warfare and Yuan Dao. The late David L. Hall was a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. His early research on A.N. Whitehead and American philosophy led him to rethink his understanding of both Daoism and classical Greek philosophy, and resulted in the publication of The Uncertain Phoenix and Eros and Irony. He received his Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale in 1967.