Analysis explores evil concepts in Daode Jing, indicating complexity in ethics and aesthetics.
This article serves to reconstruct the perception of evil through an examination of relevant vocabulary in the Daode jing . It shows that the work deliberately uses ambiguity and polysemy, its images of evil ranging between aesthetics and ethics. The manifestations of evil are classified in three categories: material world, human society and spirit realm.
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