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Zhuangzi, Confucius Images

Posted on:2011-07-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y HanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360305497808Subject:Chinese philosophy
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The main purpose of my article is to present the images of Confucius In ZhuangZi, for this, I tried to start from the origin of Zhuangzi's thought, and made the relationship between Zhuangzi and Confucian or Confucius as the basic clue. To prove that the reshaped image of Confucius by Zhuangzi was coincidental with the image of the historical one, I made a comparison between the image of Confucius in real-life and in the two books:"Analects of Confucius" and "ZhuangZi".To achieve this, first, I sorted out the views on this issue in academic community, and made a brief generalization. Then I made a summarization on the description about Confucius, and drew the three different faces of Confucius after analysis, and I think, the "criticized and ridiculed image of Confucius" was a result when Zhuangzi looked on Confucius from the views of Taoism; the "image of Confucius as an advocate of Taoism" reflected Zhuangzi's wisdom of arguing by Confucianism to some extent; and the image of Confucius as a friend was the result when Zhuangzi looked on Confucius from a position beyond limits.The conclusion of my article is:the three images above are different on surface, but in fact they can be integrated into each other. This kind of unity reveals the complexity and diversity of Chuang Tzu. It is the point of The Unifying that there is no uniform standard for evaluations on everything, the images of Confucius in ZhuangZi maybe also can be understood by this way.
Keywords/Search Tags:Zhuangzi, Confucius, Image, Thought
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