This paper compares the concept of xu jing in Liu Xie’s Wenxin Diaolong with the ideas of xinzhai zuowang and xushi shengbai in Zhuangzi.It argues that xinzhai zuowang is Zhuangzi’s method for self-cultivation to at...
Daoist political philosophy is a hot point in the study of Chinese philosophy.This paper introduces and comments on Professor Zheng Kai’s new book from four aspects,including the concept of Daoist political philosoph...
The present article addresses two lingering questions in the interpretation of the Zhuangzi莊子—(a)How can one reconcile the scepticism of the Zhuangzi with its positive project(s)?and(b)Who can become a sagely perso...
Exemplary language can,on the one hand,assist a listener to understand what a speaker intends to express,and,on the other hand,provoke a kind of practical force to the listener.Exemplary language is everywhere in our ...
Both the Mohist canon and the works of Aristotle recognize that people sometimes fail to act according to virtues, roles and duties, what in a Western context is called akrasia or ''weakness of will," an important top...
The exploration of the scale of moral evaluation in Zhuangzi may subvert people’s basic views on Zhuangzi’s thinking about moral issues.However,analyzing Zhuangzi’s philosophy based on moral relativism.It is necess...
Kim-chong Chong, Zhuangzi's Critique of the Confucians: Blinded by the Human. Albany: SUNY Press, 2016, 210 pp., ISBN: 9781438462844.1 Introduction and OverviewContemporary English-language interpretations of the ...
Emmanuel Levinas' ethical phenomenology offers a new understanding of what constitutes the core issue of ethics. For Levinas, the word "ethics" i,eeomes a question about the "wholly Other," the entity that challe...