TY - CHAP
T1 - "Weapons are nothing but ominous instruments"
T2 - The Daodejing's view on war and peace
AU - Zhang, Ellen Ying
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/5/15
Y1 - 2015/5/15
N2 - This chapter shows that while the Daodejing (DDJ) is firmly committed to peace and harmony, it also recognizes the need to employ force of arms when there is no other choice. The DDJ contrasts 'military weapons' as 'ominous instruments' to the human world as a 'sacred instrument'. DDJ also known as the Laozi, is an ancient Chinese text about 5,000 characters long, traditionally taken as a representative Daoist classic expressing a distinctive philosophy from the Warring States Period. Wang Fuzhi, a Confucian scholar of the Qing Dynasty, also views the author of the DDJ as the 'forefather of the military treatise' who is 'the teaching guide for all who write on war. Although the DDJ does discuss how to wage war, including various tactics and strategies, it also uses warfare. Since Daoism is quite skeptical about any kind of offensive acts, the warfare the DDJ talks about is defensive war; that is, war for the purpose of self-defense.
AB - This chapter shows that while the Daodejing (DDJ) is firmly committed to peace and harmony, it also recognizes the need to employ force of arms when there is no other choice. The DDJ contrasts 'military weapons' as 'ominous instruments' to the human world as a 'sacred instrument'. DDJ also known as the Laozi, is an ancient Chinese text about 5,000 characters long, traditionally taken as a representative Daoist classic expressing a distinctive philosophy from the Warring States Period. Wang Fuzhi, a Confucian scholar of the Qing Dynasty, also views the author of the DDJ as the 'forefather of the military treatise' who is 'the teaching guide for all who write on war. Although the DDJ does discuss how to wage war, including various tactics and strategies, it also uses warfare. Since Daoism is quite skeptical about any kind of offensive acts, the warfare the DDJ talks about is defensive war; that is, war for the purpose of self-defense.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Chinese-Just-War-Ethics-Origin-Development-and-Dissent/Lo-Twiss/p/book/9781138824355
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960303422&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315740706
DO - 10.4324/9781315740706
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84960303422
SN - 9781138824355
SN - 9781138729216
T3 - War, conflict and ethics
SP - 181
EP - 208
BT - Chinese Just War Ethics
A2 - Lo, Ping Cheung
A2 - Twiss, Sumner B.
PB - Routledge
ER -
