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Rethinking Guo Xiang’s Concept of “Nothing” in the Perspective of His Reception of Laozi and Zhuangzi

Religions, 2022
Since Feng Youlan and Tang Yongtong, scholars have mostly understood Guo Xiang’s “supreme nothing” (至無, zhi wu) as “non-existence”, arguing that by denying Dao as the origin of the universe, the philosophical tradition of Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Wang Bi, he
Yuhan Gao
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Nature and the Value of Learning in Classical Chinese Philosophy and in Augustine—A Comparative Study

Religions, 2023
This paper compares Augustine’s view on the value of learning to classical Chinese philosophy (Laozi, Confucius, Mengzi, Xunzi, Zhu Xi). While Laozi has a quite negative notion of learning as leading humans away from true nature, most Confucians esteem ...
Johannes Brachtendorf
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Hidden Spoor, Ruan Xiaoxu, And His Treatise On Reclusion [PDF]

, 1991
In early medieval China great attention was paid to compiling accounts of men in reclusion, yet the prefaces to these compilations often contain only vague or stale reasoning concerning the nature of reclusion itself. A preface by Shen Yue (441-513) is a
Berkowitz, Alan
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Análisis y comparación del concepto de dao en las tres interpretaciones clásicas del Laozi

Estudios de Asia y África, 2019
Se analiza y compara el concepto de dao en los tres comentarios más influyentes del Laozi, y, en particular, cómo las distintas lecturas del dao en los tres textos se relacionan con diferentes épocas históricas, tradiciones, objetivos y autores de los ...
Filippo Costantini
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The Lost Orthodoxy: Yan Zun’s Interpretation of the Laozi and the Pre-Qin to Han Daoist Tradition

Religions
Prior to the Tang Dynasty, interpretations of the Laozi fell into two traditions: the Pre-Qin and Han tradition, represented by Yan Zun, and the Wei–Jin tradition, represented by Wang Bi.
Bocheng Fan, James Brown-Kinsella
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Methods of Philosophic Critique Native to the Laozi

Religions, 2023
Lao-Zhuang thought and the Laozi in particular is frequently interpreted as providing a critique of the dominant social values of its time. In English language literature, this often entails utilizing thinkers from the Western tradition of philosophic ...
Daniel Sarafinas
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DAOISM AS CRITICAL THEORY [PDF]

, 2011
Classical philosophical Daoism as it is expressed in the Dao-De-Jing and the Zhuang-Zi is often interpreted as lacking a capacity for critique and resistance.
Wenning, Mario
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Laozi Belief and Taoism in the Western Regions—An Analysis with a Focus on the Cultural Strategy of the Han and Tang Dynasties for the Western Regions

Religions
The spread of Taoism to the Western Regions marked the movement of Central Plains culture to the frontier, demonstrating its influence on local society. During the Han Dynasty, Central Plains culture had reached the Western Regions.
Jiamin Si, Jishao Han
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Boundary of the Sky

Asian Studies, 2023
There are three good reasons why Daoism is a bad candidate for addressing contemporary environmental issues. First, the Laozi and Zhuangzi do not contain a concept of “nature” akin to ours today.
Paul D'Ambrosio
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The negative words and religious turn of Laozi’s Dao theory

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Besides concepts such as ‘being’ (有 [you]) and ‘non-being’ (无 [wu]), nature and the One to reveal the relationship between Dao and the phenomenal world from a positive perspective, Laozi used negative words, forming a speech system comprising ‘opposite ...
Youdong Yang
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