Isbn Effortless Action ( Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China ) book English Hardcover 368 pages

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This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-weiâ€”literally no doing but better rendered as effortless actionâ€”in early Chinese thought. 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. This concept of effortlessness he contends serves as a common ideal for both Daoist and Confucian thinkers. 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. Although the focus is upon early China both the subject matter and methodology have wider implications. The subject of wu-wei is relevant to anyone interested in later East Asian religious thought or in the so-called virtue-ethics tradition in the West. Moreover the technique of conceptual metaphor analysisâ€”along with the principle of embodied realism upon which it is basedâ€”provides an exciting new theoretical framework and methodological tool for the study of comparative thought comparative religion intellectual history and even the humanities in general. Part of the purpose of this work is thus to help introduce scholars in the humanities and social sciences to this methodology and provide an example of how it may be applied to a particular sub-field.

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