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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Zhuangzi"”.
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Clarity And Survival In The Zhuangzi
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Cultivating Sagehood in the Zhuangzi: Hanshan Deqing's Unified Reading of the Inner Chapters
… Deqing's commentary on the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi. I argue that the notion of the Sage is the overarching theme of Hanshan's commentary on the Inner Chapters. I trace this theme through each of the seven Inner Chapters and explain the significant role it plays in understanding the message …
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The cut that cures therapeutic methods in the Platonic dialogues and the Zhuangzi Neipian
<p>Plato and Zhuangzi are two philosophers who appear diametrically opposed given their traditional appropriations into a western and eastern philosophical canon. While the former is consistently allied with a history of philosophical rationalism, the Zhuangzi is often read as a text that …
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The Zhuangzi and Nourishing Xin: Causes of Strife, Positive Ideals of Caring for Living, and Therapeutic Linguistic Practice
This dissertation seeks to extract the Zhuangzi from a variety of problematic interpretations in English-speaking scholarship. The text has been accused of supporting a variety of moral or epistemic positions, including moral relativism, transcendental mysticism, skepticism, anarchism, and …
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The Sense In Which All Things Move: Concepts of Meaning and World in Heidegger and Zhuangzi 莊子
<p>The Chinese classic Zhuangzi 莊子 is known for its paradoxicality. Among its more difficult claims is that “the world emerges from emptiness,” such that something (or indeed everything) comes from nothing. Interpreters generally avoid this logical impasse by suggesting, for instance, that the …
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The Notion of the Machine Heart (ji xin 機心) in the Zhuangz i:the ethical relationship between technology and nature.
… knowledge and classification of the world. The Zhuangzi urges the Heart to be stilled in order to find the true knowledge that arises from innate nature (xing 性). A central premise of this dissertation is that the Heart should be considered as the personal locus that defines our relationship to …
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Realizing the Human Unity with the Universe by way of Letting Go and Emptying: Martin Heidegger and the Zhuangzi at the Crossroads of Being and Dao
… in which Heidegger’s work and the text of the Zhuangzi, in terms of their responses to the problems that emerge in their respective traditions, offer comparable notions of human nature, authenticity, and the human place in and relation to the universe. Both thinkers find that technology and …
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On the Flow and Structure of Process: An Inquiry into Changes of Things, or Shifts of Systems
… turn to the two Daoist classics, Dao De Jing and Zhuangzi, for their profound insights into the question “Do things change for better or worse”, i.e., the direction of the process, by way of Dao. </p>
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To the Forgotten : for orchestra
… Frontier Mountains” by Li Bai, the philosophy of Zhuangzi (369 BC-286 BC), and my journey in Northeast Taiwan. In the poem, the poetic process of picturing the remote landscape first, reminiscing about the grievous battle in the middle, and humanizing the scene with personal emotions in the end …
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The idea of nature in the Daoist classic of Liezi
… the Daoist classics following the Laozi and the Zhuangzi. Dating from the pre-Han period (ca. 4-5 century B.C.) to the Six Dynasties (229-589 A.D.), the Liezi constitutes a rich collection of more than a hundred and forty parables, mystical accounts, and philosophical treatises. This dissertation …
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Discontinuities in immanent worlds: the human/nonhuman animal split in Spinoza and the Zhuāngzi
<p>Interest in the human/animal binary, in its ontological, ethical, and political aspects, has been on the rise together with contemporary philosophies of difference. It has often been argued that the dominant structures of representation, which appeal to absolute, finalizing, and transcendent …
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Aesop's fables in China: the transmission and transformation of the genre
Aesop’s fables, the first western literary works transmitted to China, opened up the field of translations in China in the nineteenth century. But there had been more than one transmission, and the process by which the Chinese absorbed Aesop was long and complicated. This dissertation explores when …