The penumbra unbound: the neo-taoist philosophy of Guo Xiang
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
- ISBN13 9780791456620
- ISBN10 0791456625
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Buchseiten 186
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2003
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Gebunden
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Philosophien AsiensThe penumbra unbound: the neo-taoist philosophy of Guo Xiang
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
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.