Chuang Tzu (Zhuang Zi)

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Chuang Tzu (Zhuang Zi) ??
Chuang Tzu (between 399-295 B.C.)

• The book Chuang Tzu
• 7 Inner Chapters ??
• 15 Outer Chapters ??
• 11 Miscellaneous Chapters ??

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• I. The Equality of All Things ???
• Metaphysics, epistemology, and way of life.
• -- realizing that there is no distinction in
  reality
• -- because distinction is relative
• -- hence we should live without the bondage of
  distinctions.

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• Lose oneself empty the formed mind. Why?
• -- Formed mind compared to the music of heaven
  and earth(p.181-2)
• -- Who not to have a formed mind? -- Stupid
  people have theirs too (p.182). There is no way
  of settling rights and wrongs, good and bad, real
  or not real (p.187, 189)
• -- Relativity of distinctions. This and that,
  birth and death, accepting and rejecting,
  production and reduction, . (p.182-5)

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• Grasp the Axis of Tao
• -- The difference between Chuang Tzu and Plato
  and Descartes.
• Plato and Descartes methodological
  skepticism, leading to rationalism, searching for
  absolute certainty.
• Chuang Tzu skepticism leading to a way
  of life that transcends distinctions and
  arguments, identification of oneself with Nature.
  
• -- The similarity between Chuang Tzu and
  Plato/Descartes neither sides take skepticism
  as the end.
• -- Chuang Tzus Tong ? (184). Grasping the axis
  and respond with flexibility or following two
  courses at the same time.

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Making senses of some obscure passages

• To take a horse to show that a white horse is
  not a horse (as such) is not as good as to take a
  non-horse to show that a horse is not a horse
  (p. 183)
• Kung-sun Lung ??? a white horse is not a
  horse????p.235
• Argument one horse denotes the form and
  white denotes the color. What denotes the color
  does not denote the form.
• Argument two Ask for a horse, and either a
  yellow or a black one may answer. Ask for a white
  horse, and neither the yellow horse nor the black
  one may answer.
• Chuang Tzu Jump out of horse (given mind)
  to see that everything in itself (the
  un-differentiated nature) is the same.

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• Beginning of the universe (p.185)
• There is nothing in the world greater than the
  tip of a hair ?????????,??????????,????????????,
  ????????(p.186) example the power of ten

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• II. The Great Teacher ???
• The Distinction between Human and Nature
• -- Instead of drawing a metaphysical line
  between the two, he shows how a pure man lives.

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• The Pure Man ??
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• Taoist idea of freedom

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• Daily One-minute Paper
• 1. What is the big point you learned in class
  today?
• 2. What is the main, unanswered question you
  leave class with today?