國立臺灣大學哲學系Department of Philosophy , National Taiwan University劉福增Liu, F.T.F.T.Liu2017-09-082018-05-292017-09-082018-05-291999-01http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/281906The Lao Tzu has the distinction of having lots of directives and metaphors. THis paper will make some modern analyses of these directives and metaphors. I will use theory of speech acts and modern theory of metaphors to do this study. I hope these analyses will help us a better understanding to the Lao Tzu.journal article