2. The New Laozi Philosophy 老子哲學新論

為了要有「天然、獨立」的思考能力，我覺得需要一本通俗的哲學的入門書，做為日常思考的基礎。這個哲學必需是無國界的哲學，可以和世界接軌。如蘇格拉底所說：目的是把靈魂從我們不知道的錯誤中解放出來。

因此，我們要重新看老子哲學，他原來和西方哲學與印度佛家的哲學，都有共同的邏輯結構和「共同原則」。老子《道德經》是古代保持最完整的「非二元論」的書。

這是新的發現，老子原來的邏輯思想是普世的，中國獨有的傳統道家是歷史上的錯誤所造成的。要談老子哲學，我們不得不要先說明傳統道家的錯誤。

傳統道家的歷史錯誤

老子哲學被傳統道家扭曲，在中國已經消失了近二千年，現在我們確定是傳統道家權威王弼 (公元226-249年) 的錯誤所造成的。王弼扭曲了老子《道德經》而失去一致的邏輯。在沒有邏輯思考的拘束下，傳統道家學者在《道德經》不同的章節中及其他古書，湊出複雜模糊邏輯的思想，加上自己的見解，使大家覺得新奇和神秘。

直到十九世紀，和西方有接觸，中國思想受到邏輯的檢驗，但當時在列強的欺凌下，中國產生了強烈的「民族主義」，開始保護中華傳統文化，拒絕西方的批評，宣稱傳統道家比西方思想深奧，不能用任何西方的邏輯來分析。於是，道家錯誤的邏輯一直被保護著。

Preface

To have a “natural, independent” thinking ability, I feel the need for a popular philosophy, as the basis for daily thinking. This philosophy must be borderless and can be in line with the world. As Socrates said, the aim is to free the souls from unrecognized errors.

Therefore, we should look again at Laozi’s philosophy, which has a common logical structure and common principles with Western philosophy and Buddhism. Laozi’s Tao Te Ching maintains the most complete Nonduality in ancient times.

This is a discovery. Laozi’s original logic is universal. The unique Chinese traditional Taoism is due to historical errors. To introduce Laozi’s philosophy, we have to explain the mistakes of traditional Taoism first.

Historical Errors of Taoism

Laozi’s philosophy is distorted by traditional Taoism and has disappeared in China for nearly two thousand years. Now we can be certain that it is due to the mistakes introduced by authority Wang Bi (226-249 CE) who distorts Laozi’s logic in the Tao Te Ching and causes it to lose consistent logic. Under no constraint of logic, traditional scholars select verses from different chapters of the Tao Te Ching, and other ancient books, and combined with their insight to construct novel and mysterious thinking.

Until the nineteenth century, China started to have contact with the West and its thinking was subject to scrutiny. But soon China was under the wars with foreign powers and produced strong “nationalism” to protect the traditional Chinese culture against Western criticisms. Finally, it claims that traditional Taoism is superior to Western ideas and cannot be analyzed with any Western logic. As a result, the logical errors of Taoism remains protected.