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Known throughout East Asia as Mengzi, or "Master Meng," Mencius ( B.C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher of the late Zhou dynasty, an instrumental figure in the spread of the Confucian tradition, and a brilliant illuminator of its ideas. Mencius was active during the Warring States Period ( B.C.E.), in which competing powers sought to control the declining Zhou empire. Like Confucius, Mencius journeyed to one feudal court after another, searching for a proper lord who could put his teachings into practice. Only a leader who possessed the moral qualities of a true king could unify China, Mencius believed, and in his defense of Zhou rule and Confucian philosophy, he developed an innovative and highly nuanced approach to understanding politics, self-cultivation, and human nature, profoundly influencing the course of Confucian thought and East Asian culture.
Mencius is a record of the philosopher's conversations with warring lords, disciples, and adversaries of the Way, as well as a coll
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Zhuang Zhou
Chinese philosopher (c – c BC)
This article is about the Chinese philosopher. For his eponymous text, see Zhuangzi (book).
Zhuang Zhou (),[1] commonly known as Zhuangzi (;[2]Chinese: 莊子; literally "Master Zhuang"; also rendered in the Wade–Giles romanization as Chuang Tzu),[a] was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States period, a period of great development in Chinese philosophy, the Hundred Schools of Thought. He is credited with writing—in part or in whole—a work known by his name, the Zhuangzi, which is one of two foundational texts of Taoism, alongside the Tao Te Ching.
Life
[edit]See also: Zhuangzi (book) §&#;History
The only account of the life of Zhuangzi is a brief sketch in chapter 63 of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian,[3] and most of the information it contains seems to have simply been drawn from anecdotes in the Zhuangzi it
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Chuang Tzu
”To be questioned about the Tao and to give an answer means that you don’t know the Tao. One who asks about the Tao has never understood anything about the Tao.”- No Beginning (aka. Zhuangzi)
“When it comes to comprehending the Tao I am about as significant as a flyga eller fly undan in vinegar!”- Confucius (Zhuangzi claims)
Walking a frayed and weathered tightrope between transcendental enlightenment and radical idealistic fancy, many will find the works of Zhuangzi in ’The Book of Chuang Tzu’ to be unrealistic and impractical in our modern times (perhaps in Zhuangzi’s time [ BCE – BCE] as well), and in many ways inom would agree, however, if you’ve an open mind and a good sense of humour, there fryst vatten a lot to love about this particular kinesisk Philosopher and his ideas.
Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu – I’ll mainly use Zhuangzi but it’s the same guy FYI) is the most significant of Daoism’s interpreters to have followed the enigmatic, and likely fictional, Lao Tzu. Lao