The Live Creature and The Crooked Tree: Thinking Nature in Dewey and Zhuangzi
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Resumo: | This paper will compare the concept of nature as it appears in the philosophies of the American pragmatist John Dewey and the Chinese text known as the Zhuangzi, with an aim towards mapping out a heuristic program which might be used to correct various interpretive diffi culties in reading each fi gure.8 I shall argue that Dewey and Zhuangzi both held more complex and comprehensive philosophies of nature than for which either is typically credited. Such a view of nature turns on the notion of continuity, particularly that between an experiencing organism [Dewey’s “live creature”] and the conditioning environment [Zhuangzi’s “crooked tree”]. Where Dewey’s and Zhuangzi’s ideas about nature converge, one fi nds similarities in prescriptions made for human action, and in the few places where they diff er, one fi nds mutually complementary insights. |
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The Live Creature and The Crooked Tree: Thinking Nature in Dewey and ZhuangziDewey, John, 1859-1952ZhuangziNaturalismDaoismHumanismThis paper will compare the concept of nature as it appears in the philosophies of the American pragmatist John Dewey and the Chinese text known as the Zhuangzi, with an aim towards mapping out a heuristic program which might be used to correct various interpretive diffi culties in reading each fi gure.8 I shall argue that Dewey and Zhuangzi both held more complex and comprehensive philosophies of nature than for which either is typically credited. Such a view of nature turns on the notion of continuity, particularly that between an experiencing organism [Dewey’s “live creature”] and the conditioning environment [Zhuangzi’s “crooked tree”]. Where Dewey’s and Zhuangzi’s ideas about nature converge, one fi nds similarities in prescriptions made for human action, and in the few places where they diff er, one fi nds mutually complementary insights.Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de Filosofia / Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade de LisboaRepositório da Universidade de LisboaKirby, Christopher C.2017-06-07T10:41:17Z2016-042016-04-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/28016eng0872-4784info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:19:12Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/28016Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:44:13.558743Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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The Live Creature and The Crooked Tree: Thinking Nature in Dewey and Zhuangzi |
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The Live Creature and The Crooked Tree: Thinking Nature in Dewey and Zhuangzi |
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The Live Creature and The Crooked Tree: Thinking Nature in Dewey and Zhuangzi Kirby, Christopher C. Dewey, John, 1859-1952 Zhuangzi Naturalism Daoism Humanism |
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The Live Creature and The Crooked Tree: Thinking Nature in Dewey and Zhuangzi |
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The Live Creature and The Crooked Tree: Thinking Nature in Dewey and Zhuangzi |
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The Live Creature and The Crooked Tree: Thinking Nature in Dewey and Zhuangzi |
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The Live Creature and The Crooked Tree: Thinking Nature in Dewey and Zhuangzi |
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The Live Creature and The Crooked Tree: Thinking Nature in Dewey and Zhuangzi |
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Kirby, Christopher C. |
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Kirby, Christopher C. |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Kirby, Christopher C. |
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Dewey, John, 1859-1952 Zhuangzi Naturalism Daoism Humanism |
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Dewey, John, 1859-1952 Zhuangzi Naturalism Daoism Humanism |
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This paper will compare the concept of nature as it appears in the philosophies of the American pragmatist John Dewey and the Chinese text known as the Zhuangzi, with an aim towards mapping out a heuristic program which might be used to correct various interpretive diffi culties in reading each fi gure.8 I shall argue that Dewey and Zhuangzi both held more complex and comprehensive philosophies of nature than for which either is typically credited. Such a view of nature turns on the notion of continuity, particularly that between an experiencing organism [Dewey’s “live creature”] and the conditioning environment [Zhuangzi’s “crooked tree”]. Where Dewey’s and Zhuangzi’s ideas about nature converge, one fi nds similarities in prescriptions made for human action, and in the few places where they diff er, one fi nds mutually complementary insights. |
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2016 |
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