Zhuang Zi 传统文化 教学课件 英文版本.pptVIP

Zhuang Zi * CONTENTS Zhuang Zi’s Philosophy Way of Achieving Absolute Happiness Tao Can Never Be Spoken Aesthetic Significance Zhuangzi lived during the fourth century B.C., a time known as the Warring States period in China. That was a period of disunity in which rival nations battled constantly for more land and greater power. As a result, it was a time of widespread death and destruction. Zhuang Zi’s Philosophy Zhuang Zi advanced the concept of the Way and gave Taoism a dynamic character. To him, the Way as nature is not only spontaneity but also a constant flux, for all things are in a state of perpetual self-transformation. Zhuang Zi emphasized individual freedom and condemned all laws, morals, institutions, and governments, which, he said, were created to establish uniformity and suppress difference. Way of Achieving Absolute Happiness The perfect man has no self; the spiritual man has no achievements; and the true sage has no name.至人无己，神人无功，圣人无名。 Perfect Man He is absolutely happy, because he transcends the ordinary distinctions of things. He also transcends the distinction between the self and the world, the “me” and the “non-me”. Identification of Man with the Universe ADD YOUR TITLE The Dream of the Butterfly ADD YOUR TITLE The Happiness of Fish Zhuangzi:And you are not me how do you know I don’t know the fish are happy? (ˇ?ˇ) Huizi:of course I am not you,and I don’t know what you think;but I do know that you’re not a fish ;and so you couldn’t possibly know the dish are happy. (+﹏+)~ Zhuangzi:look,when you asked me how I knew the fish were happy,you already knew that I knew the fish were happy.i knew it form my feelings standing on this bridge. ╮(╯_╰)╭ Huizi:……………… Tao Can Never Be Spoken Zhuang Zi doubts the ability of language to present the reality of things and to express exactly the “Tao” and advocates “no speech”. No Speech Zhuang Zi’s language skepticism was a response to Confucian and Mohist debate about “right or wrong”, and the Debaters’