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Expanding Critical Thinking into “Critical Being” Through Wonder and Wu‐Wei

Educational Theory, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 41-65, February 2024.
Abstract Ian Normile begins this study from the premise that critical thinking is often conceptualized and practiced in problematically narrow and instrumentalized ways. Following Ronald Barnett, he suggests that the idea of critical being can help expand the theory and practice of critical thinking to better meet the needs of education and society ...
Ian Normile
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Can Skill Lead to Self-Transcendence in Zhuangzi?

Religions
Many scholars have claimed that the skills depicted by Zhuangzi can lead to self-transcendence of experiencing and attaining the Dao. However, this view is open to question.
Wentao Qi
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Fang Yizhi’s Transformation of the Consciousness-Only Theory in Yaodi Pao Zhuang: A Comparison and Analysis Based on Literature

Religions
Yaodi Pao Zhuang (Monk Yaodi Distills the Essence of the Zhuangzi, 藥地炮莊), written by Ming dynasty scholar Fang Yizhi (1611–1671), was one of the greatest annotations of Zhuangzi 庄子 in the late Ming dynasty.
Qing Wu
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The Zhuangzi as a Commentary on Kongzi

Religions
The role of Kongzi 孔子, in the Zhuangzi, has been a compelling story. Can we read the stories about Kongzi as constituting a type of commentary on his teachings and the early development of Confucian philosophy in general?
James Daryl Sellmann
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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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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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The Zhuangzi

This entry explores the creation and development of the Zhuangzi (Chuang tzu), purportedly written by Zhuang Zhou 莊周 (d. 286 BCE) and his followers. The text of the Zhuangzi is traditionally divided into 33 chapters--Inner, Outer, and Miscellaneous chapters--but these divisions were created after the author's death by commentators and editors.
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“I Lost Myself”: Variations on Ziqi, a Name Wandering Through Zhuangzian Landscapes

Religions
For two millennia, scholarship on the Zhuangzi has extracted doctrines, analyzed concepts, and dissected arguments, all of which is valuable and necessary.
Thomas Michael
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A study of Balfour’s English translation of the Zhuangzi in light of comparative religion

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
As an important text of Chinese philosophy and Daoism, the English translation of the Zhuangzi has played a key role in cultural exchange between China and the West.
Ziqiang Zhao
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A Decolonial Reading of the Zhuāngzĭ

Asian Studies
This paper offers a decolonial reading of the Zhuāngzǐ, situating it within a South-South dialogue between classical Chinese thought and contemporary Latin American concerns about inequality.
Manuel Salvador Rivera Espinoza
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