Introduction to Daoist Thought Action, Language, and Ethics in Zhuangzi

Name: Introduction to Daoist Thought Action, Language, and Ethics in Zhuangzi
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ISBN: 9780415423830

ISBN-10: 041542383X

ISBN-13: 9780415423830

Edition: 2008

Authors: Eske Mï¿½llgaard

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This is the first work available in English which addresses Zhuangzis thought as a whole. It presents an interpretation of the Zhuangzi, a book in thirty-three chapters that is the most important collection of Daoist texts in early China. The author introduces a complex reading that shows the unity of Zhuangzis thought, in particular in his views of action, language, and ethics. By addressing methodological questions that arise in reading Zhuangzi, a hermeneutics is developed which makes understanding Zhuangzis religious thought possible. A theoretical contribution to comparative philosophy and the cross-cultural study of religious traditions, the book serves as an introduction to Daoism…

Book details

List price: $190.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/7/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 166
Size: 7.32" wide x 9.72" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgements



On reading Zhuangzi


Can we understand Zhuangzi?


What bothers the other?


Is Daoist thought philosophy?


The religious


The figure of Zhuangzi



Zhuangzi's fundamental figures of thought


The view of the world


Life against completion


Human life


The life of Heaven


The Way


Two kinds of transcendence


Non-understanding



The drive towards completion


Technique negates the Way


The Confucian view of technical action


Totalitarianism and strategic thinking


The metaphysics of action


Form (eidos) and completion (cheng)



Unraveling the drive towards completion


Care for life


From potentiality to actuality


In-between Heaven and man


The occurrence of the ordinary



Saying the unsayable


Indicative and logical discourses


Saying and disputation


The double-question


Shifting signifiers


The intended meaning


Language in itself


Impromptu words



Bungled discourse


Suddenly there is nothing


Just now something is born


Accept "this" for what it is


Is Zhuangzi a Sophist?


Zhuangzi and Socrates



Ethics


Confucian concern


Mutilation


Beyond the will to power


The moral law


The ethical subject


On Zhuangzi's supposed naturalism



Spiritual exercise


Loss of self


Emotions are like music from empty spaces


Techniques of inner training


Completion without lament


To see the unique


Glossary


References


Index