Zhenren
ZHENREN. The term zhenren ("real person") is first encountered in parts of the Zhuangzi that are thought to date from the third century BCE. Zhenren may also be translated ...
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Zhuangzi
ZHUANGZI. Zhuangzi is both the name of the second foundational text of the Daoist philosophical and religious tradition and the name of the putative author of this text after whom the book wa...
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Zhuangzi(B. 369 Bce)
Zhuangzi, the greatest Daoist next to Laozi, was also known by his private name, Zhou. Not much is known about his life except that he was a minor government official at one time ...
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The Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu (ca. 369-ca. 286 BC), also known as Chuang Chou, was the most brilliant of the early Taoists and the greatest prose writer of his time.Not much is known of the life ...
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In the following essay, Meishi compares Chuang Tzu's philosophy of the reconciliation of opposites, the interdependency of objective and subjective, and the equality in being of all things to t...
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In the following essay, Doeringer compares the theory of symbolic language formulated by twentieth-century French philosopher Paul Ricoeur with the one devised by the authors of the Chuang Tzu, noting...
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In the following essay, Chenyang Li examines the differing methods by which Chuang Tzu and Aristotle determine what something is.
In a way, the philosophy of Chuang Tzu (b. 369 b.c., China) is radi...
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In the following essay, Kupperman explores the key role of spontaneity in Chuang Tzu's philosophy.
A working title of this paper had been “A Cicada Propounds Three Theses About Zhuang...
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In the following essay, Cook examines the differences and similarities in the works of Chuang Tzu and Confucius.
In an article dated to 1944, Guo Moruo puts forth the unusual conjecture that Zhuang...
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In the following essay, Wu Kuang explores the philosophical tension Chuang Tzu creates when he formulates the conflict between trying-not-to-try and not-trying-to-try.
Nothing defies classification...
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In the following essay, Parker examines the similarities between the philosophies of Chuang Tzu and Friedrich Nietzsche.
Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and the collection of chapters kno...
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In the following essay, Hall explores the similarities in the thought between Nietzsche and Chuang Tzu, arguing that both developed a philosophy that exists outside of their own cultures.
Establish...
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In the following essay, Allinson argues that the Chuang Tzu uses literary methods rather than discursive or argumentative ones in preparing the reader for its philosophical message of self-transformat...
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In the following essay, Shuen-fu Lin argues that Chuang-Tzu uses the persona of Confucius to voice a Taoist philosophy of emptiness which repudiates the philosophy of virtue taught by Confucius.
It...
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In the following essay, Chi-hui Chien argues that there is a conceptual similarity between the ideas of Chuang Tzu and those of French philosopher Jacques Derrida because of the way in which both give...
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In the following essay, Owens contends that there is a great deal of similarity between the concepts of being and acting, signified by the terms Ereignis and Gelassenheit in the philosophy of German p...
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In the following essay, So argues that in contrast to the western models of philosophy, based primarily on the works of Plato and Aristotle, the Taoism of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu fosters a non-mimetic ...
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Zhenren
Zhuangzi (B. 369 Bce)
Chuang Tzu
Critical Essay by Meishi Tsai
