The UML notation is intended to be drawn on two-dimensional surfaces. However , three-dimensional diagram layout and animation may improve comprehension of complex diagrams signiicantly. The paper concentrates on special UML diagram forms well-suited for advanced visualization. It makes a proposal for representing and animating such UML diagrams in a three-dimensional style. A journey of a thou...

When a psychologist understands the relationship of Taoism to Western personality dimensions, it is then possible for the psychologist to apply counseling and psychotherapy concepts which may surpass traditional methods. A group of writings, the Tao Te Ching, attributed to Lao Tzu (1972), and those of Chuang Tzu, emerged in fifth-century China. These writings expressed a natural way of intercon...

This paper attempts to present the Taoist understanding of evil. In the Taoist tradition, especially in Tao Te Ching, evil is divided into two categories: causal evil and consequential evil. Causal evils are those evils that are said to be the causes of other evils; consequential evils are those that are said to be the consequences of the causal evils. Causal evils originate from human will, an...

Inquiry into the meaning of life goes back to antiquity from Lao Tzu (trans. 1913) to King Solomon (Ecclesiastes, New International Version). Th ere is also a long and venerable tradition in psychology of exploring the meaning of human existence (Adler, 1931/1958; Frankl, 1963/1985; James, 1902; Jung, 1933; May, 1958) and self-actualization (Maslow, 1962; Rogers, 1980). However, empirical studi...

*** Lao-Tzu, paradoxical poet-philosopher of the mysterious Tao, father of the mysticalmeditative philosophical religion of Taoism. Plato, mathematically-minded theorizer of Forms, father of Academic philosophy and Western rationalism. What could these two foundational thinkers of East and West possibly have in common? Quite a lot, as it turns out. As we shall see, for both Plato 1 and Lao-Tzu,...