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

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.

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.

The Pervasiveness of Wisdom in (Con)texts

2021 ◽  
pp. 300-318
Author(s):  
John Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Far East ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Lao Tzu ◽  
Chuang Tzu ◽  
The Analects

Wisdom as a distinctive category has been challenged. This piece further challenges and opens up the geographical, ideological, and contextual contexts of sapiential texts found in various cultures with written scribal traditions. The Hebrew Bible’s Wisdom texts are primarily studied and situated in the ancient Near East and Egypt. Here, these texts are directedly placed in dialogue with authors and texts of the ancient Far East. For example: Proverbs and the Analects, Job and Buddhism, and Ecclesiastes and Chinese Philosophy (Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu). As Wisdom authors and texts hardly reference divinely sanctioned prophets or revelatory laws, the content and message with emphasis on humanity, propriety, consciousness, and jen (virtue, steadfastness, justice, affection, and righteousness) offer a fresh new breath of distinctiveness, which was pervasive in the Greco-Persian context.

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