| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 283 pages) |
| Series |
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture |
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SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Referencing; Author-Year Reference System; Chinese Characters; Quasi-Universals; References to Chinese Texts; Citations; Translations of the Zhuangzi; Other Translations; Index; Miscellaneous Conventions; Introduction; 1 Preliminaries; Necessary Preconditions of Interpretation; Against the Ideal Language Assumption; Underdetermination of Meaning and Interpretation; Would "On Its Own Terms" Be Possible?; Part I: The Troubled Water of Shifei; 2 Projection of Truth onto Classical Chinese Language; The Harbsmeier-Hansen Dispute |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Zhuangzi
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| SUBJECT |
Zhuangzi fast |
| Subject |
Methodology.
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Philosophy, Comparative.
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Methods
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methodology.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Methodology
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Philosophy, Comparative
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brakel, J. van (Jaap), author.
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| ISBN |
9781438474847 |
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1438474849 |
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