or Lieh-tzu
Chinese Daoist classic.
Though Liezi is traditionally named as its author, in its present form it probably dates from the 3rd or 4th century AD. Like earlier Daoist classics, it emphasizes the mysterious dao (way). The "Yang Zhu" chapter acknowledges the futility of challenging the dao and asserts that all one can look forward to in life is sex, music, physical beauty, and material abundance. This fatalistic belief in a life of radical self-interest was a new development in Daoism .