The foundational text of Daoism, a slim book of poetic verses on the Dao ('the Way') and the virtue of effortless action (wu wei). It counsels humility, simplicity, and harmony with the natural order.
Sources for Laozi — Tao Te Ching
Laozi — Tao Te Ching in Philosophy
Held in the Philosophy chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Plato — Republic (−375)
- Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics (−340)
- Confucius — Analects (−475)
- Mencius — Mencius (−300)
- Zhuang Zhou — Zhuangzi (−300)
- Epictetus — Enchiridion (125)
- Marcus Aurelius — Meditations (180)
- Epicurus — Letter to Menoeceus; Principal Doctrines (−300)
- Spinoza — Ethics (1677)
- Hume — An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)
- Kant — Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)
- Bentham — An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
- Mill — Utilitarianism (1863)
- Nietzsche — Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morality (1886)
- Nietzsche — Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)