Who is Laozi The Legend of Daoisms Founder

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This video is about Laozi (Lao Tzu), the reputed founder of Daoism (Taoism), teacher of Confucius, author of the Daodejing (Tao te Ching) and master of Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu). These notions comprise much of the traditional account of the history of Laozi. Throughout the video, I establish the importance of attempting to answer the question Who is Laozi? I present two answers, the traditional account, presented by Sima Qian's Shiji (94 BCE), and an alternative account, with the help of scholars like A. C. Graham and D. C. Lau. Using both, we are able to work out the evolution of the legend of Laozi and how he achieved a philosopher-sage status by the middle of the early Han. • Read it here: https://ianwithyberry.blogspot.com/20... • Timestamps: • 00:00 || Introduction • 01:28 || The Name Laozi • 03:39 || The Traditional Account: Shiji 63 • 13:16 || An Alternative Account • Pronunciation: https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-pin... • Sources and Translation Cross-references (cf) • Sturgeon, Donald. “Shiji 63.” Chinese text project. https://ctext.org/shiji/lao-zi-han-fe... • (cf) Kohn and LaFargue, Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. • (cf) Lau, D. C. “Introduction.” In Lao tzu Tao Te Ching. London: Penguin Books, 1963. • (cf) Csikszentmihalyi, Mark. “6.1 Laozi’s Biography” in Readings in Han Chinese Thought. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006. • Graham, A. C. The Origins of the Legend of Lao Tan. In Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, edited by Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, 23–40. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. (originally published 1986) • Graham, A. C. The dialogues of Confucius and Old Tan In Chuang-Tzǔ: The Inner Chapters, 126–134. Indianapolis: Hacket Publishing Company, 2001. • Lau, D. C. Appendix I: The Problem of Authorship in Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching, edited by Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, 90–103. London: Penguin Books, 1963. • Boltz, G. William. Lao tzu Tao te ching. In Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, edited by Michael Loewe, 269–292. New Haven: Birdtrack Press, 1993. • Jiang, Tao. The Problem of Authorship and the Project of Chinese Philosophy: Zhuang Zhou and the Zhuangzi between Sinology and Philosophy in the Western Academy. Dao 15 (2016): 35–55. • Fung Yu-lan. Lao-tzǔ and his School of Taoism. In A History of Chinese Philosophy vol. 1, 170–191. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. • Chan, Alan. “Laozi” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Sep 21, 2018. Accessed Aug 19, 2021. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/la... • Ziporyn, Brook. Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings. Hackett Publishing, 2021. • Kohn, Livia. The Lao-Tzu Myth. In Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, edited by Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, 41-62. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

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