Epistemic detachment from distinctions and debates: an investigation of yiming in the ‘qiwulun’ of the Zhuangzi
This article investigates a central yet perplexing term yiming in the ‘Qiwulun’ chapter of the Zhuangzi. Yiming describes a crucial way to detach from epistemic distinctions and debates. This term is often explained as ‘using ming’ or contradictorily as ‘stopping ming’. Yet neither of the two explan...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Carfax
2021
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Asian philosophy
Year: 2021, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 240-253 |
Further subjects: | B
Zhuangzi
B Tian B Debate B Metaphor B Yiming |
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Summary: | This article investigates a central yet perplexing term yiming in the ‘Qiwulun’ chapter of the Zhuangzi. Yiming describes a crucial way to detach from epistemic distinctions and debates. This term is often explained as ‘using ming’ or contradictorily as ‘stopping ming’. Yet neither of the two explanations can provide a full understanding of how yiming is adopted. I take three steps to explain yiming. First, taking an etymological approach, I argue that ming can be formulated as ‘X shining on Y’. Second, I use the formula of ‘X shining on Y’ to account for yiming and argue that this term refers specifically to ‘using tian to shine on everything’. Third, I unpack a cluster of tian-associated metaphors, which provides a deep understanding of yiming as an ideal way to mental tranquility. |
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ISSN: | 1469-2961 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Asian philosophy
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2021.1899433 |