On the "Problem of Identity" in Lao Tzu's Philosophy

Starting from the dialectic relations between thinking and being,this paper tries to unscramble the “Problem of Identityin Lao Tzu's philosophy according to Lao Tzu's explication on “Ultimate Problemof Dao.Firstly,this paper reveals the nature of Lao Tzu's epistemology which tends on knowledge side,and his Dao which is the fountain and base of the world.Secondly,this paper points out the matter and phenomenon which stem from Dao can be cognized.Apart from that,this paper analyzes some issues in Lao Tzu's philosophy as how concrete matters and reality can be cognized and what the absolute identity of Dao is.It specially analyzes the contradiction between “for learning(weixue)and “for way(weidao),revealing another characteristic nature in Lao Tzu's philosophy as annihilating desires ,abandoning practices,transcending senses,suffocating thinking ,and man's melting into the heaven and earth.