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Calling And Transcendental: Study On Chuang Tzu's Life Philosophy

Posted on:2010-02-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S F HeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278996937Subject:Chinese philosophy
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Thinking on Chuang Tzu's Life Philosophy in the background of social transformation,we can have some new perspectives and views.It is the starting point of paper how to explaine on"Calling","Transcendental","Horizen"and"Lucky chance". Chuang Tzu's Life Philosophy can be differently interpreted in the different horizen. The meaning of Chuang Tzu's Life Philosophy is constantly found in Future. It is a historical lucky chance for us to dialogue with Chuang Tzu. Our common philosophical problem is calling for life meaning.It is very necessary to analyse the dynamic course of Chuang Tzu's spiritual course. Chuang Tzu's spiritual course experienced two steps, in earlier stage he was from relativism and skepticism to nihilism and in later stage he was from relativity of all things to dogmatism of"examined against reasoning". Chuang Tzu criticized to various schools during the pre-Qin times, aimed to warn ordinary people to breakthrough the biased bound"on purpose", cultivates an open mind and observes things with open heart.Chuang Tzu was a man with natural humanity view and spiritual liberty view of human essence. Chuang Tzu's Sage and Zhenren have four characteristics of independent personality, spiritual freedom, broad horizon, religious feelings and care. Chuang Tzu studied a human under universe background, rather than under human relations and social relations background or compared with animals.Chuang Tzu thank that human life should be from animality of man to man's sociality, finally, to spirituality character----a basic rule of the human essence. The different of Chuang Tzu's Life Philosophy and various schools during the pre-Qin times is that he called ordinary people for the awakening of self-consciousness and tragedy-consciousness and condition of existence, but not fight for power of discourse and let some figures in power adopt his political advices. The man which Chuang Tzu tried to call included the governors, the intellectuals and ordinary people. Chuang Tzu's prescription for ordinary people had intensive religion, profound introspection and providesd acknowledge for ordinary people to choice a true life.The world was divided into two by Chuang Tzu and he called ordinary people to go from non-human world to zhenren world. Chuang Tzu's road to the Realm of the Tao may be divided into two, in the fore part of the road Chuang Tzu tried to sealing off of traditional ideas that had become rigid. Only through immanent transcendent practical actions can ordinary people enter into the Realm of the Tao in the post part of the road. In the layer of ontology, Chuang Tzu's Dao was not only transcendent, but also immanent. In practice, Chuang Tzu's road to the Realm of the Tao was immanent transcendent practical actions. On values, Chuang Tzu's Life Philosophy surpasses traditional ideas according to horizon of Spirit, spiritual realm, value care.Chuang Tzu was a man of religious feelings and religious care, so he wanted to discusses on the Dao with ordinary people. How to speak and teach the Dao? Chuang Tzu used imagery Language to speak the Dao by poetic-speech mode, and teached his students in daily life.
Keywords/Search Tags:Social Transition, Starting Point, Dynamic Course, Zhenren's Characteristics, Calling, Immanent, Transcendental, Imagery Language
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