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Nature And Liberty: The Study Of Zhuangzi Body

Posted on:2012-07-22Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J H LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115330338971087Subject:Chinese philosophy
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western philosophiers have kept a watchful eye on the all sort of negative effect of modernistic.They all rengard Cartesian's mind and body theory as the chief culprit.To overcome modernity is no batter than the mind and body theory.so,body has become a focal point in academic circles.Erom last century DiscoVersion,body study has become a notable learn in western academic circles,and powerful affects Chinese academic circles.Zhuangzi body view,which has body and heart unite connotation,display the peculiarity of Chinese culture.It also supply alive thinking normal form for overcoming the dualism.so,it has broad value.Different from subjectivity—impersonality,the tought of Zhuangzi is belong to the body thinking. rational thinking looks body as a object,but body thinking does not,as it is thinking through the body. body thinking forms human belief,which has original certainty. body thinking envelops the whole ideology of Zhuangzi.If we know the body thinking,we will know the whole ideology of Zhuangzi.A lot of enigmatical utterance in Zhuangzi'book,such as "inferior to Ming", "not to apply this to live in the common", "the argue beside the Hao river",can become clear. Such as "inferior to Ming",the Ming refers to principle of conduct oneself in society,which has nothing to do with quarrel.To Zhuangzi,the body is not limited to the unite of heart,Qi and physique. Above all,body is the motive subject and is the origin of the world.The relation of human and Tao is not the relation of subjectivity and objectives,but the unite of human and Dao.So,Zhuangzi opposes the common knowledge and approves the true knowledge. the true knowledge is the premise to preserve body and to be free in a society.Zhuangzi discusses the way of getting Dao by way of "empty of heant", "neglctiong", "YingNing".So,in Zhuangzi's book,body has get to the gradation of Dao.To Zhuangzi,a man should not be out of society. To save his own skin and to get free are the most the value of life. A man who attain the Tao will have De.De has two connotations:Jing,Qi,Shen and the spirit training.Only a man who have De can avoid the desester of yin and yang or society.So,Zhuangzi rejects secular condition such as fame and gain, life and death,argument, happiness and anger.On the base of preserving body,Zhuangzi pursue limitless freedom,which is not pure mental ond but the unite of the whole body.In short,the philosophy of Zhuangzi is the one whoconduct himself in society.It take inaction as a rule.Two aspects must be established by Tao.Therefore,preserving body and freedom have a specific meaning: preserving body and freedom are all the immortal's things.Zhuangzi body ideology has a profound and lasting effect on learned men in later generations。"Huainanzi"is deeply affected by it. "Huainanzi" is not just take a lot diction from Zhuangzi,what's more,its core idea is also come from him. "Huainanzi"talks over ontology of body and the way of preservation of body.Only the immortal can truly free.
Keywords/Search Tags:body, Tao, De, nature, liberty
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