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Disciplined Comparison in the Undergraduate Theory and Method Classroom

Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 163-167, December 2024.
ABSTRACT This article details the author's reimagining of the undergraduate theory and method course, in which intentional, disciplined comparison is employed to challenge and problematize traditional narratives about Religious Studies as an academic discipline.
Christopher Jensen
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From Text to Praxis: Yan Zun’s Intertextual Strategies in Laozi Zhigui and the Pragmatic Synthesis of Zhouyi, Zhuangzi, and Huang-Lao Thought

Religions
This paper, through a detailed textual analysis of Laozi zhigui 老子指歸, examines Yan Zun’s sophisticated intertextual strategies in elucidating the Daodejing 道德經 and explores the eclectic and inclusive conceptual framework he constructed.
Fufu Li
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A New Portrait of a Daoist Sage: Jean-François Foucquet’s Interpretation of the Dao

Religions, 2023
In the translation history of late imperial China, the Jesuit enterprise played a significant role in translating Western scientific knowledge, a role they performed in tandem with proselytization.
Sophie Ling-chia Wei
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Expanding Critical Thinking into “Critical Being” Through Wonder and Wu‐Wei

Educational Theory, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 41-65, February 2024.
Abstract Ian Normile begins this study from the premise that critical thinking is often conceptualized and practiced in problematically narrow and instrumentalized ways. Following Ronald Barnett, he suggests that the idea of critical being can help expand the theory and practice of critical thinking to better meet the needs of education and society ...
Ian Normile
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Kormányzástan a Laozi-ben

Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2019
The power-technical aspects and the methods of governance of Laozi’s work are the less widely discussed topics of sinological literature on classical Chinese philosophy.
Endre Ladjánszky
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Wang Bi’s “Confucian” Laozi: Commensurable Ethical Understandings in “Daoist” and “Confucian” Thinking

Religions, 2022
Wang Bi’s work is often used as evidence for “Confucian” interpretations and translations of the Laozi. Those who argue that the explicit rejections of Confucian values in chapters 5, 18, 19, and 38 should actually be read as admonishing hollow imitation
Paul Joseph D’Ambrosio
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Míng (名) in the Laozi Daodejing (老子道德經): Interpretations and Translations of the Opening Verse

, 2021
This essay revisits one of the most celebrated verses on dao and ming in the opening chapter of the received Laozi Daodejing. I clarify two types of English interpretations which are applicable to the verse and demonstrate that they are equally ...
Suzuki, Yumi
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唐初道士成玄英「重玄」的思維模式──以《老子義疏》為討論核心 [PDF]

, 2013
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鄭燦山, Cheng, Tsan-shan
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Knowledge as Addiction: A Comparative Analysis [PDF]

Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 2007
"All men by nature desire to know"-this is the famous first sentence of Aristotle's Metaphysics. It is interesting to note how knowledge, at least since Aristotle, could be understood as a desire, as a mental craving, so to speak.
Hans-Georg Moeller
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Human existence and action in English-language translations of the Daodejing [PDF]

, 2019
This dissertation investigates the nature of human action in the Daodejing. It proposes, in particular, the idea of appropriate human action. This idea of appropriate human action is grounded in the text’s concept of what it means for humans to exist. In
Nongbua, Charintorn
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