Following Nature with Mengzi or Zhuangzi

TitleFollowing Nature with Mengzi or Zhuangzi
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsPerkins, Franklin
JournalInternational Philosophical Quarterly
Volume45
Pagination327
Date Published2005
ISBN Number0019-0365
KeywordsEcology -- Religious aspects -- Confucianism, Ecology -- Religious aspects -- Taoism, Mencius ca. 371 - B.C.-ca. 289 - B.C - Chinese philosopher, Zhuangzi
Abstract

The writer discusses the concept of "following nature" in two classical Chinese thinkers, Mengzi and Zhuangzi. In particular, he attempts to complicate appeals to "following nature" in Asian thought and to problematize the very imposition of the notion of "nature" on Zhuangzi and Mengzi.