The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo XiangSUNY Press, 2003 M03 17 - 186 páginas 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 its influence on later Chinese philosophy, particularly Chan Buddhism. The implications of his thought on freedom versus determinism are also considered in comparison to several positions advanced in the history of Western philosophy, notably those of Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer, Fichte, and Hegel. Guo s thought reinterprets the classical pronouncements about the Tao so that it in no way signifies any kind of metaphysical absolute underlying appearances, but rather means literally nothing. This absence of anything beyond appearances is the first premise in Guo s development of a theory of radical freedom, one in which all phenomenal things are self-so, creating and transforming themselves without depending on any justification beyond their own temporary being. |
Contenido
The Classical Chinese Philosophical Background | 5 |
An Overview of Guo Xiangs Philosophical Project | 17 |
The Problem of Spontaneity and Morality in Earlier Xuanxue | 23 |
The Image of Traces | 31 |
Vanishing Into Things | 65 |
The Unification of Independence and Interdependence | 85 |
LoneTransformation | 99 |
The Inherency of Change and | 143 |
Comparative Notes on Freedom and Determinism | 149 |
Notes | 161 |
Bibliography | 179 |
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The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang Brook Ziporyn Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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