Effortless Action Wu-Wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China

Name: Effortless Action Wu-Wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China
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ISBN: 9780195138993

ISBN-10: 0195138996

ISBN-13: 9780195138993

Edition: 2003

Authors: Edward Slingerland, Edward Slingerland

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This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"--in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors having to do with a state of effortless ease and unself-consciousness. This concept of effortlessness, he contends, serves as a common ideal for both Daoist and Confucian thinkers. He also argues that this concept contains within itself a conceptual tension that motivates the development of early Chinese thought: the so-called "paradox of wu-wei," or the question of how one can consciously "try not…

Book details

List price: $200.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/27/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Conventions


Introduction


Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor


At Ease in Virtue: Wu-wei in the Analects


So-of-Itself: Wu-wei in the Laozi


New Technologies of the Self: Wu-wei in the "Inner Training" and the


Mohist Rejection of Wu-wei


Cultivating the Sprouts: Wu-wei in the Mencius


The Tenuous Self: Wu-wei in the Zhuangzi


Straightening the Warped Wood: Wu-wei in the Xunzi


Conclusion



The "Many-Dao Theory"



Textual Issues Concerning the Analects



Textual Issues Concerning the Laozi



Textual Issues Concerning the Zhuangzi


Notes


Bibliography


Index