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Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China Book
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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 the belief that there is a normative order to the cosmos ("the Way") within which humans have a proper place and mode of behavior. Wu-wei, Slingerland contends, can only be understood within this worldview.
- 0195138996
- 9780195138993
- Edward Slingerland
- 8 May 2003
- OUP USA
- Hardcover (Book)
- 368
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