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    Pairs without infimum in the recursively enumerable weak truth table degrees.Paul Fischer - 1986 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 51 (1):117-129.
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    The Creation of Daoism.Paul Fischer - unknown
    This paper examines the creation of Daoism in its earliest, pre-Eastern Han period. After an examination of the critical terms "scholar/master" and "author/ school", I argue that, given the paucity of evidence, Sima Tan and Liu Xin should be credited with creating this tradition. The body of this article considers the definitions of Daoism given by these two scholars and all of the extant texts that Liu Xin classified as "Daoist." Based on these texts, I then suggest an amended definition (...)
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    Dong Zhongshu: A 'Confucian' Heritage and the Chunqiu Fanlu by Michael Loewe (review).Paul Fischer - 2013 - Philosophy East and West 63 (2):306-308.
    In Dong Zhongshu: A 'Confucian' Heritage and the Chunqiu Fanlu, eminent sinologist Michael Loewe shines a bright light on the traditionally seminal but consistently understudied figure of Dong Zhongshu. Having authored several monographs on the Han dynasty over the last four decades, including a recent two-volume Biographical Dictionary (2000) and a "Companion" to those volumes (2004),1 there is probably no one more suitable to undertake such an inquiry. Loewe's contextualization of Dong and the Chunqiu fanlu is thoroughly detailed and well (...)
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    Intertextuality in Early Chinese Masters-Texts: Shared Narratives in Shi Zi.Paul Fischer - unknown
    Prior to Chinese unification in 221 bc and the beginning of imperial history, there was a “golden age” of philosophical debate among various scholars about the best way to live life, construct a social contract, and act in harmony with heaven and earth. The most influential of these scholars, collectively called the “various masters,” or zhu zi 諸子, attracted disciples who recorded the teachings of their “masters” and passed these teachings on. These texts, collectively called “masters- texts”, became the bedrock (...)
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    Shizi: China's First Syncretist.Paul Fischer - 2012 - Columbia University Press.
    By blending multiple strands of thought into one ideology, Chinese Syncretists of the pre-imperial period created an essential guide to contemporary ideas about self, society, and government. Merging traditions such as Ruism, Mohism, Daoism, Legalism, and Yin-Yang naturalism into their work, Syncretists created an integrated intellectual approach that contrasts with other, more specific philosophies. Presenting the first full English translation of the earliest example of a Syncretist text, this volume introduces Western scholars to both the brilliance of the syncretic method (...)
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    Self-cultivation in early China.Paul Fischer - 2022 - Albany: State University of New York Press.
    An introduction to ancient Chinese ideas on how to live a good life.
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    Zhuangzi: The essential writings, with selections from traditional commentaries (review).Paul Fischer - 2011 - Philosophy East and West 61 (2):402-404.
    Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings, with Selections from Traditional Commentaries is an excellent new translation of the Zhuangzi. Brook Ziporyn has produced an abridged and annotated edition of the classic for Hackett's growing series of translations on early Chinese intellectual history. The closest competitors to this new edition are the translations by Watson (1968), Graham (1981), and Mair (1994). Ziporyn's work succeeds in part because he manages to do both less and more than the others. With judicious abridgement (sixteen full chapters, (...)
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    The annotated Laozi.Paul Fischer - 2023 - Albany: State University of New York Press. Edited by Paul Fischer.
    This new annotated translation, by a scholar of ancient China, aims for fidelity to the original text as well as clarity for a modern audience.
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