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Touch and Breath

Asian 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
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Towards a More Holistic and Pluralistic Critical Systems Thinking: The Dimension of ‘Hé’ (和)

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 235-241, January/February 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper is dedicated to the pioneering work of Mike Jackson, a prominent figure in systems thinking. His enduring commitment to philosophical inquiry and holism has been pivotal in shaping critical systems thinking (CST). This paper emphasises Jackson's insights into addressing the complexities of the VUCA world. It examines the significant
Wenxian Hetty Sun
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Challenge and Revolution: An Analysis of Stanislas Julien’s Translation of the Daodejing

Religions, 2022
Retranslation constitutes a special case. as it involves a double creation of values that are determined not only by the ones inscribed in the source text but also by the ones inscribed in the previous translations.
Can Zhang, Pan Xie
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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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The Hermeneutics of Contentious Imagery: What Exactly the Zhuangzi Has to Say about the Straw Dogs in the Laozi

Religions, 2019
The image of “straw dogs” (chugou 刍狗) is a simile used in chapter five of the Laozi (老子), in a passage generally understood as an explicit Daoist rejection of kind acts (or benevolence as ren 仁 was translated for a long time), well known as ...
Callisto Searle
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On Laozi’s View of Desire

Journal of Cultural and Religious Studies, 2023
 Laozi’s concept of desire has rich ideological connotations, not only referring to reducing personal desires. Laozi’s concept of desire is based on “desire” as human nature, acknowledging the legitimacy and necessity of desire and demand.
Qin Xiao
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Tao is hidden and nameless: Exploring the mysticism path of Laozi and Zhuangzi

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The contemporary interpretation of Lao-Zhuang’s thought reveals a multidimensional dialogue between tradition and modernity, the local and the exotic, and East and West.
Yue Sun, Yuehua Chen
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Translating Early Chinese Texts and the Problem of Contextualization: The Example of Chapter 1 of the Lǎozǐ

Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2018
This article explores the issue of contextualization in translating early Chinese texts. It takes the example of Chapter 1 of the Lǎozǐ, which is analysed sentence by sentence with the focus on possible contexts in which the sentences can be read.
Dušan Vávra
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Reclusion And The Chinese Eremitic Tradition [PDF]

, 1993
Aat Vervoorn\u27s Men of the Cliffs and Caves is a groundbreaking study of attitudes held by the scholar-official class concerning the issue of service vis-à-vis reclusion, retirement, and withdrawal.
Berkowitz, Alan
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Aesthetic ineffability [PDF]

, 2017
This essay provides an overview of the ways in which contemporary philosophers have tried to make sense of ineffability as encountered in aesthetic contexts.
Jonas, Silvia
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