Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor And Spiritual Ideal in Early China /
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Edward Slingerland
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New York :
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Oxford University Press,
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2003
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xii, 352 p. ;
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24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-345) and index
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Wu-wei as conceptual metaphor. -- At ease in virtue: Wu-wei in the Analects. -- So-of-itself: Wu-wei in the Laozi. -- New technologies of the self: Wu-wei in the "inner training" and the Mohist rejection of Wu-wei. -- Cultivating the sprouts: Wu-wei in the Mencius. -- The tenuous self: Wu-wei in the Zhuangzi. -- Straightening the warped wood: Wu-wei in the Xunzi. -- Appendix 1: The "many-Dao theory" -- Appendix 2: Textual issues concerning the Analects. -- Appendix 3: Textual issues concerning the Laozi. -- Appendix 4: Textual issues concerning the Zhuangzi