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The Penumbra unbound : the neo-Taoist philosophy of Guo Xiang /
"The Penumbra Unbound is the first English language book-length study of the Neo-Taoist thinker Guo Xiang (d. 312 C.E.), commentator on the classic Taoist text, the Zhuangzi. The author explores Guo's philosophy of freedom and spontaneity, explains its coherence and importance, and shows i...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Classical Chinese philosophical background
- Overview of Guo Xiang's philosophical project
- Problem of spontaneity and morality in earlier Xuanxue
- Guo's solution: the image of traces
- Dangers of traces
- Interactivity without traces: "vanishing (into) things"
- Unification of independence and interdependence
- Lone-transformation
- Unity of activity and nonactivity
- Guo Xiang's use of the term Xing: the inherency of change and the confluence of chance, freedom, and necessity in the notion of the self-so
- Comparative notes on freedom and determinism.