Effortless Action : Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China
Edward. Slingerland
Bok Engelsk 2003 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Oxford : : Oxford University Press, USA, , 2003.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (365 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Conventions; Introduction; Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor; At Ease in Virtue: Wu-wei in the Analects; So-of-Itself: Wu-wei in the Laozi; New Technologies of the Self: Wu-wei in the ""Inner Training"" and the Mohist Rejection ofWu-wei; Cultivating the Sprouts: Wu-wei in the Mencius; The Tenuous Self: Wu-wei in the Zhuangzi; Straightening the Warped Wood: Wu-wei in the Xunzi; Conclusion; Appendix 1: The ""Many-Dao Theory""; Appendix 2: Textual Issues Concerning the Analects; Appendix 3: Textual Issues Concerning the Laozi; Appendix 4: Textual Issues Concerning the Zhuangzi. - NotesBibliography; Index. - This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally ""no doing,"" but better rendered as ""effortless action""--in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors having to do with a state of effortless ease and unself-consciousness. This concept of effortlessness, he contends, serves as a common ideal for both Daoist and Confucian thinkers. He also argues that this concept contains within itself a conceptual tension that motivates the development of early Ch
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| ISBN | 0195138996. - 0195314875. - 9780195138993. - 9780195314878
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