Zhuangzi's Philosophy Of Life

Zhuangzi's thought produces at more than 2,000 year ago the Warring States periods. Finally, the he discussion of the universe nature,social life and so on in the book of Zhuangzi falls the foot on the life. So the study of Zhuangzi is the study of philosophy of life in fact. There are so many researches on Zhuangzi during the 2,000 years. Zhuangzi's philosophy of life affects on the Chinese literati and scholar-bureaucrats all previous dynasties from different degrees and angles.This paper utilizes the research technique of the literature methodology, the history and the logical analytic method, the longitudinal inspection and the crosswise comparison unified and so on to discusses Zhuang-zi's philosophy of life. First, collect and hold the correlation material, and digest and absorb them, then comb the foundation which is Zhuang-zi's philosophy of life. It contains the social history root of Zhuangzi's philosophy of life, the predecessor thought influence, Zhuangzi's thought of natural view, Zhuangzi's thought of Discussion on Making All Things Equal as well as all sorts of contradictions of real life which Zhuangzi unfolds for people. Second, using the historical summary law, summary Zhuangzi's philosophy of life, and using logical analytic method of induction synthesis,comparative analysis, abstract summary and so on to make it into three levels. The first level of Zhuangzi's philosophy of life is that teach the people how to survive when they face the tumultuous times. In the peaceful life foundation, realizes its life ideal– pursue the spirit to be absolutely free, namely the free and unfettered, this is the second level. Zhuangzi's life ideal is realized by the ideal personality :"perfect human","God-man","wise man","true man"and so on in his article. The core of the free and unfettered is eradicating the fetter, not serving for the things and surmounting all the different position in the word, then one can get the personality independence completely and the free of spirit absolutely. However, Zhuangzi's philosophy of life didn't stop at the free of giving up all responsibilities and the pursued. After promulgates the pain of all the sorts of difficult positions of the real life, it pursues how to solve all sorts of contradictions of real life, how to explore the new way of life. So it is the third level of Zhuangzi's philosophy of life– return nature. Pursues the place of the stable survival in the harmony between the person and the nature, seek the new significance of the life, realize the value of living things and life. At last, put Zhuangzi's philosophy of life in the chain of history study, discuss the influence to the Chinese classical literature from the facet of nihility feeling and critical spirit; at the same time, make a static contrast analysis with the pre-qin other schools of thoughts as well as the free thoughts of western.Realizing the great renaissance of China, proposing harmonious development of society, and exclaiming philosophy of life restructure, and it's no doubt that the traditional philosophy is the root of wisdom in rebuilding the philosophy of life.Under the new historical condition, we should analyze,introspect and forsake the philosophy of Zhuangzi in the round,make it bring active function in perfecting one's personality, in optimizing ethos, and in developing harmonious society. We should make it become a part of modern philosophy of life. That is just the value of the paper.