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There are 13 critical essays on Zhuangzi.

Critical Essays on Zhuangzi
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Critical Essay by Scott Cook
15,604 words, approx. 52 pages
In the following essay, Cook examines the differences and similarities in the works of Chuang Tzu and Confucius.
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Critical Essay by Shuen-fu Lin
9,580 words, approx. 32 pages
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.
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Critical Essay by Ming Wu Kuang
9,291 words, approx. 31 pages
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.
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Critical Essay by Graham Parkes
8,624 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Parker examines the similarities between the philosophies of Chuang Tzu and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Critical Essay by Franklin M. Doeringer
7,804 words, approx. 26 pages
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 that Ricoeur's work is rooted in early Chinese thought.
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Critical Essay by Chenyang Li
7,756 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Chenyang Li examines the differing methods by which Chuang Tzu and Aristotle determine what something is.
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Critical Essay by Meishi Tsai
7,496 words, approx. 25 pages
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 the English Romantic poets' aesthetic of the unity of imagination and reality.
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Critical Essay by Wayne D. Owens
7,212 words, approx. 24 pages
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 philosopher Martin Heidegger, and by the terms Tao and wu-wei in the teachings of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu.
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Critical Essay by Francis K. H. So
6,861 words, approx. 23 pages
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 literature and art intent on depicting the inner harmony of the Tao rather than the outer fluctuations of nature.
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Critical Essay by Joel Kupperman
6,133 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Kupperman explores the key role of spontaneity in Chuang Tzu's philosophy.
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Critical Essay by Chi-hui Chien
5,859 words, approx. 20 pages
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 authority to a shifting viewpoint rather than a fixed reality which can be definitively signified.
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Critical Essay by Robert E. Allinson
5,476 words, approx. 18 pages
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-transformation.
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Critical Essay by David Hall
5,105 words, approx. 17 pages
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.


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