Effortless Action - Wu-Wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China Slingerland Edward Paperback
Effortless Action - Wu-Wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China Slingerland Edward Paperback This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal…
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Effortless Action - Wu-Wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China Slingerland Edward Paperback
This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"--in early Chinese thought. This concept of effortlessness, he contends, serves as a common ideal for both Daoist and Confucian thinkers. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors having to do with a state of effortless ease and unself-consciousness.
Although the focus is upon He also argues that this concept contains within itself a conceptual tension that motivates the development of early Chinese thought: the so-called "paradox of wu-wei," or the question of how one can consciously "try not to try."Methodologically, this book represents a preliminary attempt to apply the contemporary theory of conceptual metaphor to the study of early Chinese thought.