Effortless Action Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China

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Effortless Action Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China by Slingerland, Edward, 9780195138993
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  • ISBN: 9780195138993 | 0195138996
  • Cover: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 3/27/2003

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This study argues that the concept of "wu-wei", or "effortless action",serves as a spiritual ideal for five early Chinese thinkers--Confucius, Laozi,Mencius, Zhuangzi, and Xunxi. These thinkers shared a worldview based on thebelief that there is a normative order to the cosmos ("the Way") within whichhumans have a proper place and mode of behavior. Wu-wei, Slingerland contends,can only be understood within this worldview.
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