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Beyond the troubled water of Shifei : from disputation to walking-two-roads in the Zhuangzi / Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel.
Author
Ma, Lin, 1970-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2019]
©2019
Description
xxiv, 283 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BL1900.C576 M29 2019
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Subject(s)
Methodology
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Philosophy, Comparative
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Zhuangzi
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Author
Brakel, J. van (Jaap)
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Series
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
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Summary note
In recent decades, a growing concern in studies in Chinese intellectual history is that Chinese classics have been forced into systems of classification prevalent in Western philosophy and thus imperceptibly transformed into examples that echo Western philosophy. Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel offer a methodology to counter this approach, and illustrate their method by carrying out a transcultural inquiry into the complexities involved in understanding shi and fei and their cognate phrases in the Warring States texts, the Zhuangzi in particular. The authors discuss important features of Zhuangzi?s stance with regard to language-meaning, knowledge-doubt, questioning, equalizing, and his well-known deconstruction of the discourse in ancient China on shifei. Ma and van Brakel suggest that shi and fei apply to both descriptive and prescriptive languages and do not presuppose any fact/value dichotomy, and thus cannot be translated as either true/false or right/wrong. Instead, shi and fei can be grasped in terms of a pre-philosophical notion of fitting. Ma and van Brakel also highlight Zhuangzi?s idea of ?walking-two-roads? as the most significant component of his stance. In addition, they argue that all of Zhuangzi?s positive recommendations are presented in a language whose meaning is not fixed and that every stance he is committed to remains subject to fundamental questioning as a way of life.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Preliminaries
Necessary Preconditions of Interpretation
Against the Ideal Language Assumption
Underdetermination of Meaning and Interpretation
Would "On Its Own Terms" Be Possible?
pt. I The Troubled Water of Shifei
2. Projection of Truth onto Classical Chinese Language
The Harbsmeier
Hansen Dispute
Looking for the "Is True" Predicate in Classical Chinese
Conceptual Embedment of Shi and Its Congeners
Transcendental Pretense in Projecting "Theories of Truth"
The Later Mohist Canons
3.Competing Translations of Shifei
4. Variations of the Meaning of Shi
Shi as a Demonstrative
Shi as Meaning both "This" and "Right"
Modifiers of Shi
5. Dissolution of Dichotomies of Fact/Value and Reason/Emotion
Are There Dichotomies in Classical Chinese?
Fact/Value Dichotomy in Western Philosophy
6. Rightness and Fitting
Nelson Goodman on Rightness and Fitting
Note continued: Setting up the Quasi-universal of Yi and Fitting
7. Shi and Its Opposites and Modifiers in the Qiwulun
Non-English Translations of Shifei
Bi/Ci and Shi/Fei
Shibushi, Ranburan, Kebuke
Qing and Shifei
Modifiers of Shi in the Qiwuiun
Graham's Contrasting between Yinshi and Weishi
Translations of Yinbi, Weishi, and Yinshi
pt. II From Disputation to Walking-Two-Roads in the Zhuangzi
8. Is Zhuangzi a Relativist or a Skeptic?
Zhuangzi and Relativism
Relativities versus Relativism
Hansen and Graham's Relativistic Interpretations of the Zhuangzi
Zhi and Skepticism
9. Zhuangzi's Stance
Stance Instead of Perspective or Set of Beliefs
No Fixed Meanings (Weiding)
Walking-Two-Roads (Liangxing)
Doubt and Rhetorical Questions
Buqi Erqi: Achieving Equality by Leaving Things Uneven
10. Afterthoughts
Do the Ruists and Mohists Really Disagree?
Is Zhuangzi's Stance Amoral?
Appendix
Note continued: The Zhuangzi
Key Notions
Zhuangzi's Text(s): What Are the Authentic Chapters?
The Big (Da) and the Small (Xiao): Early Interpretations and Disagreements
The Qi and Lun of Wu
The Sages
Dao, Tian, and "the One"
Ziran and Hundun
Wuivei and Wuyong.
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ISBN
9781438474830 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
1438474830 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
9781438474823 ((paperback))
1438474822 ((paperback))
LCCN
2018036000
OCLC
1057238415
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