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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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Uses the concept of religiosity to challenge traditional views of Nietzsche and Zhuangzi as nihilistic and anti-religious.

Philosophy, Comparative. --- Philosophy. --- Taoist philosophy. --- Comparative philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Philosophy, Taoist --- Philosophy --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Zhuangzi. --- Nietzsche, Friedrich --- Nietzsche, Friederich --- Chuang Tzu --- Chwang Tszĕ --- Dschuang Dsi --- Tchouang-Tseu --- Tschuang-tse --- Tsjwang-Tze --- Tswang Tse --- S12/0820 --- S12/0600 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Comparative philosophy --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Zhuangzi

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As the first systematic attempt to probe the linguistic strategies of Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism, this book investigates three areas: deconstructive strategy, liminology of language, and indirect communication. It bases these investigations on the critical examination of original texts, placing them strictly within soteriological contexts. Whilst focusing on language use, the study also reveals some important truths about these two traditions and challenges many conventional understandings of them. Responding to recent critiques of Daoist and Chan Buddhist thought, it brings these two

Language and languages --- Taoism --- Zen Buddhism --- S12/0215 --- S12/0600 --- S12/0805 --- S12/0820 --- S13A/0320 --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Doctrines --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Philosophy of language --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Zhuangzi --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Influence of Foreign philosophy on Chinese philosophy --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Comparative philosophy --- China: Religion--Chinese Buddhism: Chan Buddhism (incl. texts) --- Zhuangzi. --- Chuang Tzu --- Chwang Tszĕ --- Dschuang Dsi --- Tchouang-Tseu --- Tschuang-tse --- Tsjwang-Tze --- Tswang Tse --- Religious aspects --- Taoism. --- Zen Buddhism. --- Doctrines.