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Daoism
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Wang Bi
Wang Bi was a Chinese philosopher of the Wei state who died at about twenty-three yet became one of the most influential interpreters in…
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Guo Xiang
Guo Xiang was a Chinese thinker and official of the Western Jin dynasty, active in Luoyang, and a leading figure of Xuanxue ('profound learning').…
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Zhuangzi and Huizi on the bridge: doubt about other minds, or a joke?
Every morning after taiji I sit by the river in the park, and this story comes back to me. It is in the "Autumn Floods" chapter of the Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi and his friend Huizi are strolling on a bridge over the Hao…
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Laozi
Legendary sage traditionally credited with the Daodejing and described by the historian Sima Qian as an archivist at the Zhou court. Modern scholars generally…
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Zhuangzi
Daoist thinker from the state of Song whose name is attached to a book of parables, dialogues and arguments, of which the 'Inner Chapters'…
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How can you talk about non-being without turning it into a something?
Every morning I practise taiji in the park and every evening I read a few lines of the Laozi with my grandson's dictionary. Chapter 40 says, roughly, that the things of the world are born from being, and being is born from…
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“Chinese philosophy had no epistemology” is wrong, and the Mohists are the proof
Every comparative table I see gives the Chinese row the same apologetic note: less interest in formal proof, more in precedent and the classics, no real epistemology, but that's not a deficiency. The intention is kind, but the claim underneath is wrong.…
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