AuthorZiporyn, Brook Anthony
TitleThe Penumbra unbound [electronic resource] : the neo-Taoist philosophy of Guo Xiang / Brook Ziporyn
Imprint Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003
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Descript ix, 186 p. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Classical Chinese philosophical background -- Overview of Guo Xiang's philosophical project -- Problem of spontaneity and morality in earlier Xuanxue -- Guo's solution: the image of traces -- Dangers of traces -- Interactivity without traces: "vanishing (into) things" -- Unification of independence and interdependence -- Lone-transformation -- Unity of activity and nonactivity -- Guo Xiang's use of the term Xing: the inherency of change and the confluence of chance, freedom, and necessity in the notion of the self-so -- Comparative notes on freedom and determinism


SUBJECT

  1. Taoist philosophy
  2. Guo
  3. Xiang
  4. d. 312
  5. Electronic books.