Inner Chapters

Conversion Table ix Preface x PART ONE Introduction Chuang-tzu and the origins of Taoism 3(3) Spontaneity 6(3) Rejection of logic 9(6) Heaven and man 15(5) The unifying vision 20(3) Death and mutilation 23(2) Language 25(2) The book Chuang-tzu and the problems of translation 27(16) Notes 34(2) Finding List for the Chinese text 36(7) PART TWO The writings of Chuang-tzu: the Inner chapters (chapters 1 - 7) of Chuang-tzu and passages related to the Inner chapters Going rambling without a destination (Chuang-tzu, chapter 1) 43(5) The sorting which evens things out (chapter 2) 48(14) What matters in the nurture of life (chapter 3) 62(4) Worldly business among men (chapter 4) 66(10) The signs of fullness of Power (chapter 5) 76(8) The teacher who is the ultimate ancestor (chapter 6) 84(10) Responding to the Emperors and Kings (chapter 7) 94(6) Passages related to the Inner chapters 100(16) PART THREE A 'School of Chuang-tzu' selection Stories about Chuang-tzu 116(10) The dialogues of Confucius and Old Tan 126(9) The advantages of spontaneity 135(8) Rationalising the Way: the 'Great Man' 143(15) Irrationalising the Way: 'Knowledge roams north' 158(12) Utopia and the decline of government ('Menders of nature', chapter 16) 170(6) The cult of immortality 176(5) `The essentials of our nature and destiny' 181(2) Stray ideas 183(6) Evolution Self-alienation Down with technology! It isn't his fault, it's society Miscellaneous 189(11) Notes 193(7) PART FOUR The essays of the Primitivist and episodes related to them Webbed toes (Chuang-tzu, chapter 8) 200(4) Horses' hooves (chapter 9) 204(3) Rifling trunks (chapter 10) 207(4) Keep it in place and within bounds (chapter 11, introduction) 211(3) Episodes related to the Primitivist essays 214(10) Notes 217(7) PART FIVE The Yangist miscellany Yielding the throne (Chuang-tzu, chapter 28) 224(10) Robber Chih (chapter 29) 234(10) The discourse on swords (chapter 30) 244(4) The old fisherman (chapter 31) 248(11) Notes 254(5) PART SIX The Syncretist writings The Way of Heaven (Chuang-tzu, chapter 13, introduction) 259(5) Finicky notions (chapter 15) 264(4) Syncretist fragments 268(3) Three rhapsodies on the way 271(3) Below in the empire (chapter 33) 274(12) Notes 285(1) List of Characters 286(3) Index 289