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Effortless Action: Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China
by Edward Slingerland
Binding: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Weight: 1.54 pound
Dimension: H: 0.75 x L: 9.06 x W: 0.5 inches
ISBN 10: 0195138996
ISBN 13: 9780195138993
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This study argues that the concept of 'wu wei', or 'effortless action', serves as a spiritual ideal for five early Chinese thinkers Confucius, Laozi, Mencius, Zhuangzi, and Xunxi. These thinkers shared a worldview based on the belief that there is a normative order to the cosmos ('the Way') within which humans have a proper place and mode of behavior. Wu wei, Slingerland contends, can only be understood within this worldview.

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