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zhuangzi 主要成就achievements: Zhuangzi has fascinated the Chinese mind. He takes readers to undreamed of

zhuangzi 主要成就achievements: Zhuangzi has fascinated the Chinese mind. He takes readers to undreamed of Chinese Name:庄子 lands and stimulates them through 庄氏,名周,字子休(一作子沐) conversations of the shadow , the 别名alias:庄周、南华真人 skeleton, and the north wind. He seems to transcend the mundane. States world, yet he is 国籍nationality:Warring Period –State always in the very depth of daily life. He of Song is quietistic, yet for him life moves on 出生地birthplace:宋国蒙(今安徽蒙城或河南 like a galloping horse. He is mystical, but also follows reason as the leading light. 商丘) Zhuang Zi was an influential Chinese 职业profession:philosopher, thinkers, writers philosopher. 代表作品works:《Zhuang Zi》

庄子运用浪漫的想象 力和美妙的文笔,通 过对梦中变化为蝴蝶 和梦醒后蝴蝶复化为 己的事件的描述与探 讨,提出了人不可能 确切的区分真实与虚 幻和生死物化的观点。 One day at sunset, Zhuangzi dozed

庄子运用浪漫的想象 力和美妙的文笔,通 过对梦中变化为蝴蝶 和梦醒后蝴蝶复化为 己的事件的描述与探 讨,提出了人不可能 确切的区分真实与虚 幻和生死物化的观点。 One day at sunset, Zhuangzi dozed off and dreamed that he turned into a butterfly. He flapped his wings and was sure enough he was a butterfly ( ⊙ o ⊙ ) ! What a joyful feeling he had as fluttered about~(≧▽≦)/~. He completely forgot that he was Zhuang. Zi. Soon he realized that proud butterfly was really Zhuang. Zi who dreamed he was a butterfly, Or was it a butterfly who dreamed he was Zhuang. Zi? Maybe the butterfly was Zhuang. Zi? This is what is meant by the “transformation of things”

This hints at many questions in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and

This hints at many questions in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and epistemology. The name of the passage has become a common Chinese idiom, and has spread into Weatern language as well. It appears, inter alia, as an illustration in Jorge Luis Borges’ Borges famous essay”A New Refutation of Time”, and may have inspired Time H. P. Lovecraft’s H. P. Lovecraft 1918 short story “Polaris”, It also appears in Victor Polaris Pelevin’s Pelevin philosophical novel Buddha’s Little Finger Zhuangzi’s philosophy was very influential in the development of Chinese Buddhism, especially Chan(also known as Zen. )

Zhuangzi: And you are not me how do you know I don’t know the

Zhuangzi: And you are not me how do you know I don’t know the fish are happy? (ˇˍˇ) One day zhuangzi andyou huizi are Zhuangzi: look, when asked strolling hao bridge. me howon. I the 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. ╮(╯_╰)╭ Zhuangzi: look how happy the fish are just swimming around Huizi: ……………… in the river. ! o(≧v≦)o~~ 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. (+﹏+)~ Huizi: how do you know they are happy? you are not a fish. ╭∩╮(︶︿︶)╭∩╮