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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.
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.
Lana Ko
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Fanaticism and the Zhuangzi: The Discursive Conditions for Unhealthy Commitments

Religions
This article utilizes the Zhuangzi’s critical approach to language to expand contemporary discourse on the philosophy of fanaticism beyond the conceptual categories derived from European Enlightenment-era critiques of religious and political fanaticism ...
Daniel Sarafinas
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Harmonizing Diversity: Insights from Zhuangzi’s Concept of Zhi 知

Religions
Zhuangzi articulates a framework for harmonizing diversity in both thought and practice. An in-depth analysis of the concept of zhi 知 is essential for understanding Zhuangzi’s perspective on achieving harmony concerning the diverse and ever-changing ...
Cheng Wang
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Beauty and Dao: The Transcendental Expressions of Nature from Emerson’s Prose and the Zhuangzi

Religions
As an aesthetic resource in ancient China, the Zhuangzi’s description of Dao is similar to the American philosopher Emerson’s experience of beauty, and both reveal that the essence of beauty lies in its inherent vitality, spiritual transcendence, and the
Xuehong Jia, Dongyue Wu
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Mysticism in the Zhuangzi [PDF]

, 2017
This dissertation proposes that the Zhuangzi contains some elements of mysticism, but not in the straightforward manner that scholars have typically suggested. A review of theories of mysticism shows that ‘mysticism’ in English-language literature covers a linguistically and culturally bound set of ideas originating in analyses of religious and ...
McConochie, Thomas
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Value Pluralism and the Challenge of Normativity in the Zhuangzi

Journal of World Philosophies, 2017
Kim-chong Chong’s 2016 book on the Zhuangzi balances the textual and historical approaches with conceptual and contemporary philosophical concerns. The focus on the early Confucian context and the philosophy of value pluralism, as well as the analysis of
Mark L. Farrugia
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Authority without Authenticity: The Zhuangzi’s Genuine Pretending as Socio-Political Strategy

Religions, 2018
In this paper, we present a socio-political reading of the Zhuangzi based in part on a brief review of contemporary Chinese scholarship on the text. We will argue that the approach to dealing with authority in the Zhuangzi can be summarized by the phrase
Paul D’Ambrosio, Hans-Georg Moeller
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No Peace for the Wicked? Immorality Is Thought to Disrupt Intrapersonal Harmony, Impeding Positive Psychological States and Happiness

Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 11, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Why do people think that someone living a morally bad life is less happy than someone living a good life? One possibility is that judging whether someone is happy involves not only attributing positive psychological states (i.e., lots of pleasant emotions, few unpleasant emotions, and satisfaction with life) but also forming an evaluative ...
Michael M. Prinzing, Barbara L. Fredrickson   +1 more
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Open‐mindedness and ajar‐mindedness in history of philosophy

Metaphilosophy, Volume 54, Issue 2-3, Page 208-222, April 2023., 2023
Abstract There was once a princess called Sophia, whose philosophy museum was superior. But most of the stores became locked behind doors, which led to collective amnesia. Then along came a band of ajar‐minders, who decided to issue reminders of the treasures inside that hadn't yet died, and opened the doors to all finders.
Michael Beaney
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Analysis of Andrey Platonov’s works from the point of view of Taoism [PDF]

Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Филология, Журналистика
This study aims to identify and analyze points of convergence between the philosophical content in the works of the Soviet writer Andrei Platonov (1899–1951) and the core concepts of Chinese Taoism.
Liu, Yue
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