Chuang Tzu's becoming-animal

Philosophy East and West 61 (1):110-133 (2011)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Hui Tzu said to Chuang Tzu, “. . .Your words ... are too big and useless, and so everyone alike spurns them!”Chuang Tzu said, “Maybe you’ve never seen a wildcat or a weasel. It crouches down and hides, watching for something to come along. It leaps and races east and west, not hesitating to go high or low—until it falls into the trap and dies in the net. Then again there’s the yak, big as a cloud covering the sky. It certainly knows how to be big, though it doesn’t know how to catch rats.” 1 One could perhaps understand, if not empathize with, Hui Tzu’s impatience in the dialogue above. Hui Tzu, after all, is not alone in finding Chuang Tzu’s philosophy, which would be the thinking of the Way ..

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,221

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Radical concrete particularity: Heidegger, Lao Tzu, and Chuang Tzu.Wayne D. Owens - 1990 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 17 (2):235-255.
The notion of Tao in Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu.Giancarlo Finazzo - 1968 - Taipei, Taiwan: Mei Ya Publications.
On the question of relativism in the Chuang-Tzu.Robert E. Allinson - 1989 - Philosophy East and West 39 (1):13-26.
Skepticism and realism in the Chuang Tzu.Russell B. Goodman - 1985 - Philosophy East and West 35 (3):231-237.
Chuang Tzu and the free man.Russel D. Legge - 1979 - Philosophy East and West 29 (1):11-20.
The efficacy of uselessness: A Chuang-Tzu motif.John S. Major - 1975 - Philosophy East and West 25 (3):265-279.
The wandering dance: Chuang Tzu and zarathustra.Graham Parkes - 1983 - Philosophy East and West 33 (3):235-250.
Chuang-tzŭ's theory of truth.Siao-Fang Sun - 1953 - Philosophy East and West 3 (2):137-146.

Analytics

Added to PP
2011-01-15

Downloads
155 (#112,616)

6 months
13 (#117,898)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Irving Goh
Cornell University

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references