Abstract:

The dao - de metaphysics in the Laozi begins from human "virtue", and seeks the highest practical ethic taking "nothingness" as its core through the criticpie of experience and establishment of the principle of life. So, it has a pure nature. A person who wants to obtain "Dao" must transcend his intrinsic nature of body life, that is, the integrity including virtues of the baby state, and go back to the "eternity" and "independency" of the life - self. The Laozi shows its orientation of moral values from "nothingness" to "oughtness", and issues the three mandates of "non - action", "suppleness" and contentment" starting from the human free sphere of pursuing an intrinsic state.

Key words: Laozi, metaphysics of virtue, nothingness, oughtness, moral mandate