JIANGHAN ACADEMIC ›› 2010, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (1): 86-90.

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On Qiwu(No Respecter of Things) by Master Zhuang

LU Miao-jun   

  1. School of history ,Nankai University,Tianjin 300071,China
  • Received:2009-09-30 Online:2010-02-01 Published:2013-12-27

Abstract: On Qiwu is an important works reflecting Zhuangzi’s ideological confrontation with Logician ideas.Proposed in the article is the significant statement of “It’s preferable to explain that fingers are nonfingers by means of nonfingers to the explanation by means of fingers”,which helps to understand the different ideological theories between Zhuangzi and Gongsun Long.In the Period of the Warring States,when the trend of thoughts of “rectification of names”prevailed dominantly, a fairly meaningful subject was proposed in the article of “Land under heaven is no bigger than the tip of an animal’s autumn hair and Mount Taishan is small.”The proposition of “Heaven and earth coexist with me,and all things on earth and I blend into a harmonious whole.” which profoundly expresses Zhuangzi’s thought of “making ten thousand things flush” by the conception of “The way of Nature is a harmonious whole.” It’s an effective approach to explicate Book of Master Zhuang by combining the academic background of Zhuangzi’s thought with the language environment of the text.

Key words: Zhuangzi(Master Zhuang), Logicians, On Qiwu(No Respecter of Things)