The Inner Chapters

by Chuang-Tzu; Graham, S. C.; Graham, A. C.

• ISBN13: 9780872205819
• ISBN10: 0872205819
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that constitute the classic of Taoism, the Chuang-Tzu (or Zhuangzi). It is this core of ancient writings that is ascribed to Chuang-Tzu himself.

Table of Contents

Conversion Table	ix
Preface	x
PART ONE Introduction
Chuang-tzu and the origins of Taoism	3	(3)
Spontaneity	6	(3)
Rejection of logic	9	(6)
Heaven and man	15	(5)
The unifying vision	20	(3)
Death and mutilation	23	(2)
Language	25	(2)
The book Chuang-tzu and the problems of translation	27	(16)
Notes	34	(2)
Finding List for the Chinese text	36	(7)
PART TWO The writings of Chuang-tzu: the Inner chapters (chapters 1 - 7) of Chuang-tzu and passages related to the Inner chapters
Going rambling without a destination (Chuang-tzu, chapter 1)	43	(5)
The sorting which evens things out (chapter 2)	48	(14)
What matters in the nurture of life (chapter 3)	62	(4)
Worldly business among men (chapter 4)	66	(10)
The signs of fullness of Power (chapter 5)	76	(8)
The teacher who is the ultimate ancestor (chapter 6)	84	(10)
Responding to the Emperors and Kings (chapter 7)	94	(6)
Passages related to the Inner chapters	100	(16)
PART THREE A 'School of Chuang-tzu' selection
Stories about Chuang-tzu	116	(10)
The dialogues of Confucius and Old Tan	126	(9)
The advantages of spontaneity	135	(8)
Rationalising the Way: the 'Great Man'	143	(15)
Irrationalising the Way: 'Knowledge roams north'	158	(12)
Utopia and the decline of government ('Menders of nature', chapter 16)	170	(6)
The cult of immortality	176	(5)
`The essentials of our nature and destiny'	181	(2)
Stray ideas	183	(6)
Evolution
Self-alienation
Down with technology!
It isn't his fault, it's society
Miscellaneous	189	(11)
Notes	193	(7)
PART FOUR The essays of the Primitivist and episodes related to them
Webbed toes (Chuang-tzu, chapter 8)	200	(4)
Horses' hooves (chapter 9)	204	(3)
Rifling trunks (chapter 10)	207	(4)
Keep it in place and within bounds (chapter 11, introduction)	211	(3)
Episodes related to the Primitivist essays	214	(10)
Notes	217	(7)
PART FIVE The Yangist miscellany
Yielding the throne (Chuang-tzu, chapter 28)	224	(10)
Robber Chih (chapter 29)	234	(10)
The discourse on swords (chapter 30)	244	(4)
The old fisherman (chapter 31)	248	(11)
Notes	254	(5)
PART SIX The Syncretist writings
The Way of Heaven (Chuang-tzu, chapter 13, introduction)	259	(5)
Finicky notions (chapter 15)	264	(4)
Syncretist fragments	268	(3)
Three rhapsodies on the way	271	(3)
Below in the empire (chapter 33)	274	(12)
Notes	285	(1)
List of Characters	286	(3)
Index	289