# Dao

- Id: `dao`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/dao/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `8d1d47e74aa6fcf1b385a7a1ced8084bd02b40d2faf8246e0d102cf069ef948d`

## Summary

In the received Daodejing, the Dao cannot be fixed by an enduring verbal formula or name.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 107 passages across 3 works, including The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ), Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue, Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of War. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:laozi.daodejing:1"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "道",
    "dao that",
    "le dao",
    "le tao"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 3,
    "passages": 107,
    "thinkers": 3,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "chinese-thought",
        "name": "Early Chinese thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/early-chinese-thought/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "confucius.analects",
        "title": "The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)",
        "author": "Confucius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/confucius/analects/"
    },
    {
        "id": "laozi.daodejing",
        "title": "Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue",
        "author": "Laozi",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/laozi/daodejing/"
    },
    {
        "id": "sunzi.sunzi_bingfa",
        "title": "Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of War",
        "author": "Sun Tzu",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sunzi/art-of-war/"
    }
]
```