Master Incapable: A Medieval Daoist on the Liberation of the Mind de Meyer Jan
Master Incapable: A Medieval Daoist on the Liberation of the Mind de Meyer Jan The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in…
Specifikacia Master Incapable: A Medieval Daoist on the Liberation of the Mind de Meyer Jan
Master Incapable: A Medieval Daoist on the Liberation of the Mind de Meyer Jan
The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world.Master Incapable (Wunengzi) is an important but relatively little-known Daoist work written in 887, as the Tang dynasty (618-907) was breathing its last. The nucleus of Master Incapable's analysis is his view of the separation of humanity from the natural world, caused by an abnormal growth of the intellect. The unknown author, a former government official now living as a recluse, witnesses internecine warfare, widespread poverty, and rampant social injustice, and attempts to explain why humanity seems to be plunging into a state of utter chaos.
His critique is as radical as that in the so-called "primitivist" chapters of the Daoist classic Zhuangzi, in
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