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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
