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2020
This chapter studies the Zhuangzi. Unlike in the previously discussed texts, virtually all serious scholars accept that the Zhuangzi comprises layers of diverse origin and date. Since the twentieth century, there have been several attempts to identify the various strata and associate them with particular philosophical camps: syncretists, primitivists ...
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This chapter studies the Zhuangzi. Unlike in the previously discussed texts, virtually all serious scholars accept that the Zhuangzi comprises layers of diverse origin and date. Since the twentieth century, there have been several attempts to identify the various strata and associate them with particular philosophical camps: syncretists, primitivists ...
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Dreaming of Butterflies: Embodying Zhuangzi's Philosophy through a Mixed Reality Installation
Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Art PapersWhile extended reality (XR) has increasingly been used for narrative immersion and cultural visualization, few projects have explored its potential to embody eastern metaphysical thoughts through spatial interactions. In our work Dreaming of Butterflies,
Yifan Ding, Wanxiang Ma, Zihan Gao
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Is Zhuangzi a Wanton? Observation and Transformation of Desires in the Zhuangzi
Dao, 2020This essay considers how the Zhuangzi 莊子 sheds light on a new direction to the contemporary discussion of desires. Harry Frankfurt proposes an account of personhood based on a hierarchy of desires. He defines a wanton as a being that does not have second-order volitions, the desires that a certain desire of action becomes her will. J.
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2001
Abstract Zhuangzi, also known as Chuang-tzu, very probably was a real person, who lived in the fourth century BCE. The book to which his name is attached has accretions that stamp it as the work of many hands. Scholars sometimes isolate within the Zhuangzi (Chuang-Tzu) what are called the “Inner Chapters” (chapters r through 7), which ...
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Abstract Zhuangzi, also known as Chuang-tzu, very probably was a real person, who lived in the fourth century BCE. The book to which his name is attached has accretions that stamp it as the work of many hands. Scholars sometimes isolate within the Zhuangzi (Chuang-Tzu) what are called the “Inner Chapters” (chapters r through 7), which ...
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Zhuangzi's Self-Concept in the Context of Cognition
Journal of Daoist Studies:This study examines Zhuangzi's concept of self in the context of cognition, elucidating that it stems from two distinct interactions with the world.
Woo-sung Jung
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The grounds of Zhuangzi’s hostility to Confucian self-cultivation
Asian PhilosophyThe vehemence and stridency of Zhuangzi’s hostility to the Confucian program of self-cultivation cannot be explained simply in terms of his belief that it is misguided or mistaken. The antagonism clearly is grounded in a belief that the program is deeply
D. E. Soles, D. H. Soles
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Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 2017
In this essay I closely look at dialogues from the Daoist text Zhuangzi and examine their modes of reasoning. The observations, comments, and dialogues are often witty, surprising, and puzzling. Sometimes they are mystic and difficult to understand. But how “reasonable” are the answers given in these dialogues?
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In this essay I closely look at dialogues from the Daoist text Zhuangzi and examine their modes of reasoning. The observations, comments, and dialogues are often witty, surprising, and puzzling. Sometimes they are mystic and difficult to understand. But how “reasonable” are the answers given in these dialogues?
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The Korean Society of Human and Nature
The purpose of this paper is to compare the philosophies of the Eastern thinker Zhuangzi and the Western philosopher Martin Heidegger, in order to identify their commonalities and implications. To this end, the discussion will focus on Zhuangzi’s concept
Eung-Chol Shin
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The purpose of this paper is to compare the philosophies of the Eastern thinker Zhuangzi and the Western philosopher Martin Heidegger, in order to identify their commonalities and implications. To this end, the discussion will focus on Zhuangzi’s concept
Eung-Chol Shin
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Advances in Philosophy
Zhuangzi was a famous philosopher during the Warring States period in China and the culmination of pre Qin Taoism. The book Zhuangzi is a rare and precious cultural heritage in the history of Chinese philosophy and literature.
Kun Dong
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Zhuangzi was a famous philosopher during the Warring States period in China and the culmination of pre Qin Taoism. The book Zhuangzi is a rare and precious cultural heritage in the history of Chinese philosophy and literature.
Kun Dong
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2018
The Zhuangzi is a Daoist text usually associated with ‘Master Zhuang’ (fourth century bc), also known as Zhuang Zhou. Scholarly consensus regards the thirty-three chapters of this text to be composite, containing passages that offer different and sometimes even contradictory interpretations of basic Daoist tenets. The opening seven ‘inner chapters’ are
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The Zhuangzi is a Daoist text usually associated with ‘Master Zhuang’ (fourth century bc), also known as Zhuang Zhou. Scholarly consensus regards the thirty-three chapters of this text to be composite, containing passages that offer different and sometimes even contradictory interpretations of basic Daoist tenets. The opening seven ‘inner chapters’ are
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