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題名 | Firewood: Reflections on Some Metaphors in the Yang Sheng Chu= |
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作者 | DuBel,Reinhard; |
期刊 | Tamkang Review |
出版日期 | 19970300 |
卷期 | 27:3 民86.春 |
頁次 | 頁383-395 |
分類號 | 121.33 |
語文 | eng |
關鍵詞 | 莊子; 養生主; Agathon; Fire; Particular; Self; Yang sheng chu; End; Metaphor; River; Universal; Chuang-tzu; |
英文摘要 | This paper proposes some reflections on two brief texts from the Yang Sheng Chu (養生主), the third chapter of the Chuang-tzu (莊子). The main focus is the metaphor of fire and firewood, understood as trying to articulate two intertwined forms of ending and coming to an end. Making firewood has to do with the effort of reaching the universal. The metaphor of fire stands for a reality beyond the universal, a reality in constant change--like the shape of fire. This reality must not be seen as independent from the universal. There cannot be any fire without firewood that keeps it burning, and there cannot be any particular beyond the universal, nor any form of access to it, without turning towards the universal. Looking for the universal, the paper conculudes, has to be done, and it is the only thing that can be done. What can be done indeed is not everything. Everything else, however, requires that everything that can be done is done. This is perhaps the basic idea the metaphor of fire and firewood tries to explicate. |
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