scholarly journals Uma contribuição de Chuang-tzu ao pensamento de Heidegger: o cultivo do inútil.

Differenz ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Oscar Bauchwitz
Keyword(s):  
Chuang Tzu

O interesse de Heidegger pelo pensamento asiático é algo reconhecido pelos intérpretes da sua obra. O que se procura expor aqui é uma parte desse interesse, analisando e contextualizando a presença do Chuang-tzu onde Heidegger o traz à colação com o propósito de interpretar o sentido do inútil. Para Heidegger, o inútil designa a especificidade e o caráter próprio da filosofia e do pensamento meditativo, ao tempo que permite pensar a liberdade e a disposição humanas desde uma perspectiva não utilitarista do mundo técnico. Em Chuang-tzu, Heidegger encontrou um interlocutor privilegiado, valendo-se de suas parábolas para pensar em outro modo de realização do habitar humano que exige a necessidade de apresentar e fomentar o cultivo do inútil.

The Way of Chuang Tzu

Books Abroad ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 358
Author(s):  
John L. Bishop ◽  
Thomas Merton
Keyword(s):  
Chuang Tzu ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Chuang Tzu e o pensamento da plenitude

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
André Vinicius Lira Costa
Keyword(s):  
Chuang Tzu ◽  
Thomas Merton

Neste trabalho, será interpretado o pensamento de Chuang Tzu[1] com ênfase nas questões da felicidade e da liberdade, em dois de seus textos: “A grande sabedoria” e “Vida ativa”. A obra de Chuang Tzu, fora a distância cronológica de vinte e quatro séculos, apresenta bastantes dificuldades para o leitor ocidental por integrar a tradição oriental de pensamento. Trabalhar-se-á com versões de Thomas Merton. Será estabelecido um confronto entre a visão poética de Chuang Tzu, que remete a uma desfuncionalização da vida e do ser humano, e a percepção corrente na sociedade globalizada, que gira em torno da utilidade e funcionalidade, ponto máximo e atual da tradição metafísica do Ocidente.   [1] Pensador chinês do século IV a.C., de inspiração taoísta.

scholarly journals A Study on the compilation of Chuang tzu

2008 ◽  
Vol null (50) ◽  
pp. 195-213
Author(s):  
Segeun Jeong
Keyword(s):  
Chuang Tzu

Taoism

1995 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franciscus Verellen
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Social Constraints ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Lao Tzu ◽  
Chuang Tzu ◽  
Court Politics ◽  
The Ideal

Circumscribing the place of taoists in Chinese society is not straightforward for any period: honored by emperors and members of the nobility, they were scorned, as a rule, by literati-officials and treated with a mixture of reverence and familiarity by ordinary people. The paradoxical strength of passivity, the power of compliance, and the endurance of the peripheral already form a central theme in the mystical writings gathered in the fourth and third centuryb.c.Lao-tzuandChuang-tzu. The Taoism of these ancient texts advanced a doctrine of liberation through submission, of control by means of noninterference, and of transcendence as a result of physiological and mental regimens. The ideal of liberation from the physical, epistemological, and social constraints of the human condition in time translated into a quest for immortality which, by the Ch'in unification of the empire, became quite explicit. Huang-Lao thought, named for the Yellow Emperor and patron of the immortals (Huang-ti) and Lao-tzu, dominated court politics from this period through the middle of the second centuryb.c.

Technology: Liberation or Enslavement?

1995 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
The Moon ◽  
Chuang Tzu ◽  
Return Visit ◽  
Primo Levi ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Technological Achievement

The week, twenty-five years ago, of the Apollo spacecraft's return visit to the moon was described by Richard Nixon as the greatest since the Creation. Across the Atlantic, a French Academician judged the same event to matter less than the discovery of a lost etching by Daumier. Attitudes to technological achievement, then, differ. And they always have. Chuang-Tzu, over 2,000 years ago, relates an exchange between a Confucian passer-by and a Taoist gardener watering vegetables with a bucket drawn from a well. ‘Don't you know that there is a machine with which 100 beds are easily watered in a day?’—‘How does it work?’—‘It's a counterbalanced ladle’—‘too clever to be good … all machines have to do with formulae, artificiality [which] destroy native ingenuity … and prevent the Tao from residing peacefully in one's heart’. ‘Engines of mischief, in the words of the Luddite song, or testaments to ‘the nobility of man [as] the conqueror of matter’, in those of Primo Levi, the products of technology continue to inspire phobia and philia.

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