| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 352 pages) |
| Contents |
Wu-wei as conceptual metaphor. -- At ease in virtue: Wu-wei in the Analects. -- So-of-itself: Wu-wei in the Laozi. -- New technologies of the self: Wu-wei in the "inner training" and the Mohist rejection of Wu-wei. -- Cultivating the sprouts: Wu-wei in the Mencius. -- The tenuous self: Wu-wei in the Zhuangzi. -- Straightening the warped wood: Wu-wei in the Xunzi. -- Appendix 1: The "many-Dao theory" -- Appendix 2: Textual issues concerning the Analects. -- Appendix 3: Textual issues concerning the Laozi. -- Appendix 4: Textual issues concerning the Zhuangzi |
| Summary |
This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"--In early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors having to do with a state of effortless ease and unself-consciousness. This concept of effortlessness, he contends, serves as a common ideal for both Daoist and Confucian thinkers. He also argues that this concept contains within itself a conceptual tension that motivates the develop |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-345) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Chinese -- To 221 B.C.
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Nothing (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
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Nothing (Philosophy)
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Philosophy, Chinese
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Philosophie
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Chinese filosofie.
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002071518 |
| ISBN |
9780199874576 |
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0199874573 |
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1283121492 |
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9781283121491 |
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9786613121493 |
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6613121495 |
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0199881448 |
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9780199881444 |
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