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The Inner Chapters

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

ISBN13: 9780872205819
ISBN10: 0872205819
eBook ISBN(s): 9781624662249
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2001-03-01
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

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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

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