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The phenomenon of Daoism in Chinese civilization
Creativity Studies, 2009 In this article Daoism is analyzed in the context of Chinese culture. It is demonstrated how the ideas of Daoism were shaped and matured in the Chinese civilization and how they reflect the peculiarities of the civilization of Eastern Asia and China. The
Agnieška Juzefovič
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Mastering the Body: Reading a Discourse of Embodiment in the Zhuangzi
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.ABSTRACT The Zhuangzi is one of the most well‐known early Chinese classics. Subversive and iconoclastic, both in terms of its subject matter and narrative style, the text has profoundly influenced the intellectual and literary history of East Asia. First introduced to the West in the late nineteenth century as an early “Daoist” classic, the Zhuangzi ...
Lana Ko
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Environmentalism From a Confucian Perspective: Record of a Roundtable Discussion
The Philosophical Forum, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 76-83, Autumn (Fall) 2025.ABSTRACT The 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” is an online academic forum that hosts a range of lectures, book discussions and roundtables each year, creating a space for collaboration, as well as bringing different opinions into a conversation. The roundtable on “Environmentalism” aligned with the forum's aims, bringing together three prominent scholars ...
Agne Veisaite, Vytis Silius
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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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ReligionsThis 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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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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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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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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