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The Space Within: How Architected Voids Promote Tissue Formation

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, Volume 38, Issue 7, 2 February 2026.
This review explores the role of void spaces in tissue engineering scaffolds and examines four key methods for introducing porosity into hydrogels at different scales. It discusses sacrificial templating, microgels, phase separation, and 3D printing, highlighting principles, advantages, and limitations. It also addresses emerging strategies integrating
Anna Puiggalí‐Jou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inversion and Interconversion: A Comparative Study on the Negative Dimension of Adorno’s Inverse Theology and Pre-Qin Daoist Thought

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Negativity is an important dimension in both Adorno’s inverse theology and the theological thought of pre-Qin Daoism. Firstly, both have a negative thinking and approach.
Feng Tao
doaj   +1 more source

Nothing Rather than Something: A Zhuangzian Reappraisal of Nihilism

open access: yesJournal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 483-502, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Nihilism comes from the Latin nihil, meaning “nothing.” It is the belief that nothing inherently governs existence: no values, principles, or ultimate meaning. Many philosophers treat this as an existential crisis: If there is no meaning to our lives and actions, why bother? This work challenges the assumption that nihilism is terrifying.
Christine Abigail L. Tan
wiley   +1 more source

Bibliografía seleccionada y comentada sobre Taoísmo Clásico (II): Dao De Jing (Tao Te King / Laozi) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Bibliografía seleccionada y comentada sobre Taoísmo Clásico (II): Dao De Jing (Tao Te King ...
Luis Varona, Juan; Universidad Complutense de Madrid (España).   +1 more
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Touch and Breath

open access: yesAsian Studies
“Become hard!” is the supposedly “new tablet” that Nietzsche’s Zarathustra has placed above us. It can hardly be denied that modernization in particular has relentlessly imposed a need to develop one’s hardness and strength.
Fabian Heubel
doaj   +1 more source

From Noncoercive Action to Shapelessness: On the Ontological Ground of Laozi’s Political Philosophy

open access: yesReligions, 2022
The theoretical proposition that sages or ideal rulers wuwei 無為 (act noncoercively) to achieve ziran 自然 of people has been clearly identified as the key claim in the political field, as posed by Laozi. However, this proposition leaves two questions worth
Yiming Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Mastering the Body: Reading a Discourse of Embodiment in the Zhuangzi

open access: yesReligion 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
wiley   +1 more source

Yan Zun’s Approach to Resolving Contradictions in Laozi’s Theory of the Dao: An Analysis of the Laozi Zhigui

open access: yesReligions
The Laozi Zhigui of Yan Zun occupies an important place in the history of interpretation of the Laozi, and his thoughts had an enormous influence on the xuanxue scholars of the Wei-Jin period afterward.
Rui Li
doaj   +1 more source

Transcendental Time and Empirical Time: Two Types of Time and Their Internal Connection in the Laozi

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The concept of time in Laozi’s philosophy is more complicated than it appears. Its complexity stems from the fact that there are two distinct concepts of time: the temporality of empirical things, which is constructed as a finitely continuous temporal ...
Zhongjiang Wang, Qiuhong Li
doaj   +1 more source

Environmentalism From a Confucian Perspective: Record of a Roundtable Discussion

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

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