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Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China
- First published2003
- TraditionTaoism & Chinese Religion
- Shelf119 books
A study of wu wei as a shared ideal of early Chinese thought, traced through the Analects, the Laozi, the Mencius, the Zhuangzi and the Xunzi. Slingerland identifies the 'paradox of wu wei' and shows how each school tried to resolve it.
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