Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi

Kim-chong Chong, Volume Editor, is Professor Emeritus at the Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. A previous position was at the Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore where he also served as Head of Department. He is the author of Early Confucian Ethics (Open Court, 2007) and Zhuangzi’s Critique of the Confucians (SUNY Press, 2016).

• 1. Introduction(Chong).- Part 1. Text, Authorship and Zhuangzi.- 2. Authorship of the Zhuangzi(Keung Lo).- 3. Various Positions on Zhuangzi Scholarship(Klein).- 4. The Commentarial Tradition on the Zhuangzi(Chai).- 5. A Portrait of Zhuangzi(Chong).- Part 2. Central Concepts.- 6. Zhuangzi on ming (命) (Raphals).- 7. Zhuangzi’s Idea of Being One (weiyi 為一) (Fung).- 8. Getting and Forgetting Oneness in the Zhuangzi (Ziporyn).- 9. The Ontology of the Vast and the Minute (daxiao 大小) (Coutinho).- 10.Transformation of Things and Qi (wuhua 物化, qihua 氣化) (Sato).- 11. Virtue/Power (de 德) (Chan).- 12. No Emotions (wu qing 無情) (Chai).- 13. The Division between Heaven (tian 天) and Human (ren 人) (Perkins).- 14. Fasting of the Heart-Mind (xin zhai 心齋) (Zhang).- 15. The True Person (zhen ren 真人) and True Knowledge (真知) (Xu).- Part 3. Language and Metaphor.- 16. The Language of the Zhuangzi (Porat).- 17. Yan (言Words) and Yi (意Meaning) (Fang).- 18. Zhuangzi's conception of Yu Yan (寓言Imputed Words) and Zhi Yan (卮言Goblet Words) (Fried).- 19. Humor and its Philosophical Significance in the Zhuangzi (Moeller).- 20. Those Who Can Fly Without Wings: The Depiction of Ideal Persons in the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi (Lin).- Part 4. Central Concepts.- 21. Confucius as a Literary and Philosophical Figure in the Zhuangzi (Cook).- 22. The Relation between Laozi and Zhuangzi (Fried).- 23. Xunzi and Zhuangzi (Ting).- 24. Zhuangzi and the Logicians (Kwok).- 25. Zhuangzi and Religious Daoism (Kohn).- 26. Zhuangzi and Wei-Jin Xuanxue (Lo).- 27. Zhuangzi and Neo-Confucianism (Tan).- 28. Zhuangzi and Buddhism (Hong).- Part 5. Ethics, Value and Knowledge.- 29. Zhuangzi and Normative Ethics (Fraser).- 30. Internal Sages and External Kings: Moral Pluralism and Happiness in the  Zhuangzi (Nam).- 31. The Value of Spontaneity (Luk).- 32. Filial Piety in the Zhuangzi—“Let the Parents Forget You” (Chiu).- 33. How Much Intuition Goes Into Intuitive Skill? (Wong).- 34. What Do the Skill Masters Know? (Lai).- 35. Skepticism and Relativism in the Zhuangzi (Sturgeon).- 36. Zhuangzi from the Neuro-Scientific Perspective (Raphals).- 37. The Problem of Freedom in the Zhuangzi (Jiang).- 38. Implied Social and Political Values in the Zhuangzi (Lee).- Part 6. The Zhuangzi and Western Philosophy.- 39. The “art of sauntering” in the Zhuangzi and in the writings of Henry David Thoreau (Lin).- 40. Buber, Heidegger and Zhuangzi (Nelson).- 41. The Cementing and Loosening of Human Bonds in Spinoza and the Zhuangzi (Ozbey).-42. The Aesthetic in Kant and the Zhuangzi (Guzowska).- 43. Zhuangzi's Notion of the True Master and Wittgenstein's Grammatical Investigation (Cheung).- 44. The Art of Nourishing Life—Philosophical Therapies in the Platonic Dialogues and the Zhuangzi (Sikri).- 45. Zhuangzi and Nietzsche (Shang).- 46. Is Zhuangzi a Wanton? A Comparison Between Zhuangzi’s Theory of Freedom and Frankfurt’s Notion of Personhood(Hung).