“It Goes beyond Skill”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23154397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Robins (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 105-124 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Ethics In Early China An Anthology (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Hong Kong University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028931.003.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W2492787588 |
| ISBN | 9789888028931 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
In early Chinese discourse, a dào was most often a norm-governed way of doing something, such as filling a role, engaging in an activity, or achieving some goal. The dào promoted by the various masters were of this sort, for example. But there are also texts according to which dào is prior to and gives rise to the cosmos. For example, Book 6 of the Zhuāngzǐ tells us that “dào . . .[is] from the basis, from the root, when there were not yet heaven and earth, since ancient times it has persisted . . . it produces heaven and produces earth” (Zhuāngzǐ 6:230/81). The aim of this chapter is to give an account of how these two uses of the term “dào” relate, and of what it might mean for ways of acting to give rise to the cosmos.
Aesthetics · Arithmetic · Art · Art history · Cosmos (plant) · Earth (classical element) · Epistemology · Heaven · Linguistics · Literature · Norm (philosophy) · Root (linguistics) · sort · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Mathematical Physics · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2019 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |