This comprehensive collection brings out the rich and deep philosophical resources of the
Zhuangzi. It covers textual, linguistic, hermeneutical, ethical, social/political and philosophical issues, with the latter including epistemological, metaphysical, phenomenological and cross-cultural (Chinese and Western) aspects. The volume starts out with the textual history of the
Zhuangzi, and then examines how language is used in the text. It explores this unique characteristic of the
Zhuangzi, in terms of its metaphorical forms, its use of humour in deriding and parodying the Confucians, and paradoxically making Confucius the spokesman for Zhuangzi’s own point of view. The volume discusses questions such as: Why does Zhuangzi use language in this way, and how does it work? Why does he not use straightforward propositional language? Why is language said to be inadequate to capture the “
dao” and what is the nature of this
dao? The volume puts Zhuangzi in thephilosophical context of his times, and discusses how he relates to other philosophers such as Laozi, Xunzi, and the Logicians.
Cuprins
1. Introduction(Chong).- Part 1. Text, Authorship and Zhuangzi.- 2. Authorship of the
Zhuangzi(Keung Lo).- 3. Various Positions on Zhuangzi Scholarship(Klein).- 4. The Commentarial Tradition on the
Zhuangzi(Chai).- 5. A Portrait of Zhuangzi(Chong).- Part 2. Central Concepts.- 6. Zhuangzi on
ming (命) (Raphals).- 7. Zhuangzi’s Idea of Being One (
weiyi 為一) (Fung).- 8. Getting and Forgetting Oneness in the
Zhuangzi (Ziporyn).- 9. The Ontology of the Vast and the Minute (
daxiao 大小) (Coutinho).- 10.Transformation of Things and
Qi (
wuhua 物化,
qihua 氣化) (Sato).- 11. Virtue/Power (
de 德) (Chan).- 12. No Emotions (
wu qing 無情) (Chai).- 13. The Division between Heaven (
tian 天) and Human (
ren 人) (Perkins).- 14. Fasting of the Heart-Mind (
xin zhai 心齋) (Zhang).- 15. The True Person (
zhen ren 真人) and True Knowledge (真知) (Xu).- Part 3. Language and Metaphor.- 16. The Language of the
Zhuangzi (Porat).- 17.
Yan (言Words) and
Yi (意Meaning) (Fang).- 18. Zhuangzi’s conception of
Yu Yan (寓言Imputed Words) and
Zhi Yan (卮言Goblet Words) (Fried).- 19. Humor and its Philosophical Significance in the
Zhuangzi (Moeller).- 20. Those Who Can Fly Without Wings: The Depiction of Ideal Persons in the Inner Chapters of the
Zhuangzi (Lin).- Part 4. Central Concepts.- 21. Confucius as a Literary and Philosophical Figure in the
Zhuangzi (Cook).- 22. The Relation between Laozi and Zhuangzi (Fried)
.- 23
. Xunzi and Zhuangzi (Ting)
.- 24. Zhuangzi and the Logicians (Kwok)
.- 25. Zhuangzi and Religious Daoism (Kohn)
.- 26.
Zhuangzi and Wei-Jin
Xuanxue (Lo).- 27. Zhuangzi and Neo-Confucianism (Tan).- 28. Zhuangzi and Buddhism (Hong).- Part 5. Ethics, Value and Knowledge.- 29. Zhuangzi and Normative Ethics (Fraser).- 30. Internal Sages and External Kings: Moral Pluralism and Happiness in the
Zhuangzi (Nam).- 31. The Value of Spontaneity (Luk).- 32. Filial Piety in the
Zhuangzi—“Let the Parents Forget You” (Chiu).- 33. How Much Intuition Goes Into Intuitive Skill? (Wong).- 34. What Do the Skill Masters Know? (Lai).- 35. Skepticism and Relativism in the
Zhuangzi (Sturgeon).- 36. Zhuangzi from the Neuro-Scientific Perspective (Raphals).- 37. The Problem of Freedom in the
Zhuangzi (Jiang).- 38. Implied Social and Political Values in the
Zhuangzi (Lee).- Part 6. The
Zhuangzi and Western Philosophy.- 39. The “art of sauntering” in the
Zhuangzi and in the writings of Henry David Thoreau (Lin).- 40. Buber, Heidegger and Zhuangzi (Nelson).- 41. The Cementing and Loosening of Human Bonds in Spinoza and the
Zhuangzi (Ozbey).-42. The Aesthetic in Kant and the
Zhuangzi (Guzowska).- 43. Zhuangzi’s Notion of the True Master and Wittgenstein’s Grammatical Investigation (Cheung).- 44. The Art of Nourishing Life—Philosophical Therapies in the Platonic Dialogues and the Zhuangzi (Sikri).- 45. Zhuangzi and Nietzsche (Shang).- 46. Is Zhuangzi a Wanton? A Comparison Between Zhuangzi’s Theory of Freedom and Frankfurt’s Notion of Personhood(Hung).
Despre autor
Kim-chong Chong, Volume Editor, is Professor Emeritus at the Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. A previous position was at the Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore where he also served as Head of Department. He is the author of Early Confucian Ethics (Open Court, 2007) and Zhuangzi’s Critique of the Confucians (SUNY Press, 2016).
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