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The Zhuangzi (historically romanized Chuang Tzŭ) is an ancient Chinese text that is one of the foundational texts of Taoism, alongside the Tao Te Ching, Neiye, Wenzi and Liezi.
Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu 莊子 “Master Zhuang” late 4th century BC) is the pivotal figure in Classical Philosophical Daoism. The Zhuangzi is a compilation of his and others’ writings at the pinnacle of the philosophically subtle Classical period in China (5th–3rd century BC).
Zhuang Zhou (/ dʒ u ˈ ɑː ŋ ˈ dʒ oʊ /), [1] commonly known as Zhuangzi (/ ˈ dʒ w ɑː ŋ ˈ d z ʌ /; [2] Chinese: 莊子; literally "Master Zhuang"; also rendered in the Wade–Giles romanization as Chuang Tzu), [a] was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States period, a period ...
Zhuangzi, Chinese philosophical, literary, and religious classic named for its author, Zhuang Zhou, who lived in the 4th century bce and is commonly referred to as Zhuangzi (“Master Zhuang”).
The Book of Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi), translated by Martin Palmer, Elizabeth Breauilly, Chang Wei Ming, and Jay Ramsay, is available here in EPUB, AZW3, and PDF formats. Book Description: A masterpiece of ancient Chinese philosophy, second in influence only to the Tao Te Ching.
The Zhuangzi (also known in Wade-Giles romanization romanization as Chuang-tzu), named after “Master Zhuang” was, along with the Laozi, one of the earliest texts to contribute to the philosophy that has come to be known as Daojia, or School of the Way.
The Zhuangzi is a big book, about the same size as the Xunzi. But it is far more diverse and disorganized than the Xunzi and its major ideas much harder to summarize. In this section we will try to capture the most basic premises of the Zhuangzi, and the methods Zhuangzi uses to lead us towards accepting them.
Zhuang Zhou (born c. 369 bce, Meng, state of Song [now Shangqiu, Henan province], China—died 286 bce) was the most significant of China’s early interpreters of Daoism, and his eponymous work, the Zhuangzi, is considered to be one of the definitive texts of Daoism.
As one of the two most popular Daoist texts in the Chinese tradition, the Zhuangzi has been the subject of more than sixty major East Asian commentaries since the third century C.E., some of which contain philosophically significant interpretations of the text.
For the purpose of understanding Zhuangzi, Hui Shi’s key saying strikes at the use of similarity to ground realism: The ten-thousand thing-kinds are ultimately alike and ultimately different. Call this the great similarity-difference. Zhuangzi develops this insight.