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Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer

Zhuangzi

Religion & MysticismEnglish
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Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), the great Taoist philosopher of the fourth century BC, teaches through stories, jokes and paradoxes rather than arguments. He dreams…

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Zhuangzi
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Religion & Mysticism
Language
English
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About this book

Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), the great Taoist philosopher of the fourth century BC, teaches through stories, jokes and paradoxes rather than arguments. He dreams that he is a butterfly, and on waking cannot tell whether he is a man who dreamed he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he is a man; a cook carves an ox so skilfully, following its natural lines, that his knife never grows dull; and a giant tree survives because it is useless for timber. Behind them lies a call to give up fixed ideas and live in harmony with the Tao.

Context and significance

This translation, published in 1889 by the British diplomat and sinologist Herbert Allen Giles, with a note by Aubrey Moore, was one of the first complete English versions, and Oscar Wilde praised it in a famous review. Read the Tao Teh King and The Analects.

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