The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China

The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. Starting with the deep philosophical flaw at the core of modernity, namely that the cosmos is devoid of ends of its own, it posits, as an alternative axis for civilization, that the cosmos indeed actively seeks its own existence, and that its self—realization is moreover internally structured via an impulse, amongst finite things, towards co—generativity. Termed ‘Dao’ i...