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The honorific title laozi has been romanized numerous ways, sometimes leading to confusion. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read tao te ching. Dec 20, 2012 laotzus taoism stood in direct contradiction to confucius philosophy emphasizing education, knowledge as power, and strict adherence to the law. It is ascribed to lao tzu, master lao, identified as lao tan, an archivist of the chou dynasty in preimperial china.
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