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Religion --- Eastern Religions --- Philosophy & Religion --- Zhuangzi. --- 莊子. --- Chuang-tzu.

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Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness offers a radical rereading of the Daoist classic Zhuangzi by bringing to light the role of nothingness in grounding the cosmological and metaphysical aspects of its thought. Through a careful analysis of the text and its appended commentaries, David Chai reveals not only how nothingness physically enriches the myriad things of the world, but also why the Zhuangzi prefers nothingness over being as a means to expound the authentic way of Dao. Chai weaves together Dao, nothingness, and being in order to reassess the nature and significance of Daoist philosophy, both within its own historical milieu and for modern readers interested in applying the principles of Daoism to their own lived experiences. Chai concludes that nothingness is neither a nihilistic force nor an existential threat; instead, it is a vital component of Dao's creative power and the life-praxis of the sage.

Nothing (Philosophy) --- Nothingness (Philosophy) --- Nihilism (Philosophy) --- Ontology --- Zhuangzi. --- 莊子. --- Chuang-tzu.

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First published in 1939. This book consists chiefly of extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius and Han Fei Tzu. Chuang Tzu's appeal is to the imagination; the appeal of mencius is to the moral feelings; realism, as expounded by Han Fei Tzu, finds a close parallel in modern Totalitarianism and as a result these extracts from a book of the third century B.C. nonetheless have a very contemporary connection.

Philosophy, Chinese. --- Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Chinese philosophy --- Mencius. --- Zhuangzi. --- Chuang Tzu --- Chwang Tszĕ --- Dschuang Dsi --- Tchouang-Tseu --- Tschuang-tse --- Tsjwang-Tze --- Tswang Tse --- Mencius

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In recent decades, a growing concern in studies in Chinese intellectual history is that Chinese classics have been forced into systems of classification prevalent in Western philosophy and thus imperceptibly transformed into examples that echo Western philosophy. Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel offer a methodology to counter this approach, and illustrate their method by carrying out a transcultural inquiry into the complexities involved in understanding shi and fei and their cognate phrases in the Warring States texts, the Zhuangzi in particular. The authors discuss important features of Zhuangzi's stance with regard to language-meaning, knowledge-doubt, questioning, equalizing, and his well-known deconstruction of the discourse in ancient China on shifei. Ma and van Brakel suggest that shi and fei apply to both descriptive and prescriptive languages and do not presuppose any fact/value dichotomy, and thus cannot be translated as either true/false or right/wrong. Instead, shi and fei can be grasped in terms of a pre-philosophical notion of fitting. Ma and van Brakel also highlight Zhuangzi's idea of "walking-two-roads" as the most significant component of his stance. In addition, they argue that all of Zhuangzi's positive recommendations are presented in a language whose meaning is not fixed and that every stance he is committed to remains subject to fundamental questioning as a way of life.

Methodology. --- Philosophy, Comparative. --- Zhuangzi. --- Comparative philosophy --- Humanities Methodology --- Methodology --- Chuang Tzu --- Chwang Tszĕ --- Dschuang Dsi --- Tchouang-Tseu --- Tschuang-tse --- Tsjwang-Tze --- Tswang Tse

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This volume engages with the works and ideas of Angus Charles Graham (1919–1991), one of the most prominent Western scholars of Chinese philosophy, at the twenty-fifth anniversary of his passing. Over a professional career of more than thirty years, Angus Graham produced an impressive amount of scholarship on a wide array of topics, ranging from Chinese grammar and philology to poetry and philosophy. His combination of rigorous scholarship and philosophical originality has continued to inspire scholars to tackle related research topics, and in so doing, has required of them a response to his views. This book illustrates the range of scholarship still elaborating upon, disagreeing with, and reacting to Graham's work on Chinese thought, philosophy, philology, and translation.

Philosophy, Chinese --- S01/0800 --- S05/0229 --- S12/0200 --- Chinese philosophy --- China: Bibliography and reference--"Festschrifte" and other works of a miscellaneous nature --- China: Biographies and memoirs--Foreigners associated with China (incl. Sinologues) --- China: Philosophy and Classics--General works --- Graham, A. C. --- Zhuangzi. --- Chuang Tzu --- Chwang Tszĕ --- Dschuang Dsi --- Tchouang-Tseu --- Tschuang-tse --- Tsjwang-Tze --- Tswang Tse --- Graham, Angus Charles --- Graham, Angus Charles, --- 08.10 non-western philosophy. --- Philosophy, Chinese.