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  1. Reflex and reflectivity:Wuweiin theZhuangzi.Alan Fox - 1996 - Asian Philosophy 6 (1):59-72.
    Abstract I will explicate Zhuangzi's conception of wuwei as it is articulated in the image of the ?hinge of dao.? First, I will discuss the few actual instances of the term ?wuwei? in the Zhuangzi. Second, I will show that the text uses this imagery to suggest an adaptive or reflective mode of conduct. Third, I will analyse the metaphor of the hinge, and show how this metaphor can illuminate Zhuangzi's notion of wuwei and the behaviour of the realised person. (...)
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    The Huayan Metaphysics of Totality.Alan Fox - 2013 - In Steven M. Emmanuel (ed.), A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy. Chichester, UK: Wiley. pp. 180–189.
    The story of Huayan Buddhism intertwines in many ways with many other more well‐known forms of Buddhist thought. The Buddhist concepts of upāya or “skillful means,” prajnapti from Yogācāra and paramārtha satya from Madhyamaka, justify a range of pragmatic propositions, which represent a healthy way of viewing the world. Upāya refers to the diagnostic and prescriptive skill of a buddha or bodhisattva, who is ostensibly able to discern a particular person's problem and recommend a helpful strategy for solving it. This (...)
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    In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.Alan Fox & Janet Gyatso - 1997 - Philosophy East and West 47 (4):616.
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    Varieties of Ethical Reflection: New Directions for Ethics in a Global Context.Stephen C. Angle, Michael Barnhart, Carl B. Becker, Purushottama Bilimoria, Samuel Fleischacker, Alan Fox, Damien Keown, Russell Kirkland, David R. Loy, Mara Miller & Kirill Ole Thompson (eds.) - 2002 - Lexington Books.
    Varieties of Ethical Reflection brings together new cultural and religious perspectives—drawn from non-Western, primarily Asian, philosophical sources—to globalize the contemporary discussion of theoretical and applied ethics.
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  5. The Aesthetics of Justice: Harmony and Order in Chinese Thought.Alan Fox - unknown
    In his A Theory of Justice, John Rawls suggests that a society's notion of justice informs its distribution of rights, obligations, and goods. For him, "justice as fairness" ensures that the principles dictating this distribution be agreed upon fairly. I will argue that there is no exact parallel in the Chinese tradition to what Rawls is calling "justice as fairness." Instead, we see serving a similar purpose an emphasis on the regulation of harmonious processes within the body of society. This (...)
     
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  6. Book Review. [REVIEW]Alan Fox - 2009 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 8:209-211.
     
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  7. Book Review of Hsueh-li Cheng’s Empty Logic: Madhyamike Buddhism from Chinese Sources (New York: Philosophical Library, 1984), 220 pages. [REVIEW]Alan Fox - 1986 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 13 (3):361-364.
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  8. Zhuangzi: Text and Context. By Livia Kohn. Honolulu: Three Pines Press, 2014. 335 pp. ISBN-10: 1931483272; ISBN-13: 978-1931483278. [REVIEW]Alan D. Fox - 2015 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 42 (3-4):425-428.
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    Coutinho, Steve, zhuangzi and early chinese philosophy: Vagueness, transformation, and paradox. [REVIEW]Alan Fox - 2009 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 8 (2):209-211.
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    Teaching Daoism as Philosophy.Alan Fox - 2007 - Teaching Philosophy 30 (1):1-28.
    I propose to consider chapter 1 of the famous, classic, and foundational Daoist text Dao De Jing, attributed to Laozi, in order to enable a non-expert to negotiate the subject of Daoism in a global philosophy context, and to further enhance the teaching of philosophy by introducing and emphasizing at least some of the controversies that inevitably surround interpretation of a classical set of texts and ideas. This forces students to see through simplistic dichotomies and form subtler conclusions, on their (...)
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    Book Review of Hsueh-li Cheng's Empty Logic: Madhyamike Buddhism from Chinese Sources. [REVIEW]Alan Fox - 1986 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 13 (3):361-364.
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    Self-reflection in the sanlun tradition: Madhyamika as the "deconstructive conscience" of buddhism.Alan Fox - 1992 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 19 (1):1-24.
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    Book Review: In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. [REVIEW]Alan Fox - unknown
    This book is the outgrowth of a panel of papers on the theme of "memory," presented at the 1987 Annual Meeting of the Buddhism Section of the American Academy of Religion. Four of the contributors to this volume, including Western phenomenologist Edward Casey from SUNY Stony Brook, participated in that panel, though the papers were obviously further developed since that inceptional presentation. The book focusses on the crucial but heretofore almost entirely overlooked topic of memory and remembrance as it appears (...)
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    Zhuangzi: Text and Context. By Livia Kohn. Honolulu: Three Pines Press, 2014. 335 pp. ISBN‐10: 1931483272; ISBN‐13: 978‐1931483278. [REVIEW]Alan D. Fox - 2015 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 42 (3-4):426-428.
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    Review of The Iśvarapratvabhijnakarika of Utpaladeva with the Author's Vrtti, by Raffaele Toreha; Jung and Eastern Thought: A Dialogue with the Orient, by John James Clarke ; Abu Yacqub al-Sijistani: Intellectual Missionary, by Paul E. Walker ; Religious Pluralism and Truth: Essays on Cross-cultural Philosophy of Religion, ed. Thomas Dean ; and The Body, Self-cultivation, and Ki-energy, by Yuasa Yasuo, trans. Shigenori Nagatomo and Monte S. Hull. [REVIEW]Karel Werner, J. Pickering, Oliver Leaman, Michael Levine & Alan Fox - 1996 - Asian Philosophy 6 (3):233-243.
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    Guarding what is essential: Critiques of material culture in Thoreau and Yang Zhu.Alan Fox - 2008 - Philosophy East and West 58 (3):pp. 358-371.
    In his book "Walden", Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) describes an experiment intended to determine what is essential in life. His analysis includes a critique of the excesses of material culture, concluding that the most important concerns for human beings revolve around the retention of what he calls "heat." I suggest that there are a number of interesting parallels between this analysis and a cluster of ideas generally describable as "protodaoist" and often attributed to the legendary and obscure figure known as (...)
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    Roger Ames, The Art of Rulership: A Study of Ancient Chinese Political Thought. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1994, pp. xxv + 277. [REVIEW]Alan Fox - 1995 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 22 (3):367-370.
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    Process Ecology and the “Ideal” Dao.Alan Fox - 2005 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32 (1):47-57.
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    Process Ecology and the “Ideal” Dao.Alan Fox - 2005 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32 (1):47-57.
  20. Book Review: The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy. [REVIEW]Alan Fox - unknown
    The primary project involves an analysis of the phenomenon described as Ki-energy. This concept is found in some form or another and is called by a variety of names in a number of traditional yogic and medical technologies. Counterparts to Ki from other cultural traditions would be, for example: qi from the Chinese tradition; prana from the Indian traditions; nefesh or ruach from the Hebrew traditions; and so on. Phenomenologically, this life force accounts for the activity and "living-ness" of living (...)
     
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  21. ZHUANGZI (Chuang-tzu) ׯ ×Ó.Alan Fox - unknown
    The first seven chapters of the text, often called the Inner Chapters, are generally attributed to Zhuang Zhou (Chuang Chou), who, according to legend, lived in what is now known as Honan from approximately 370-286 BC. The rest of the text is often understood to contain fragments of material, some of which are sometimes attributed to the same author as the Inner Chapters, some of which are attributed to other authors, including representatives of the Yangzhu (Yang Chu) tradition. For the (...)
     
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