On the Concepts of "Heaven" and "the Creator" in Zhuangzi's Philosophy
Abstract
Modern scholars Zhuang Guo Xiang note through "village" of thinking, as appropriate, into the profit and loss and the philosophy of Chuang Tzu, "day" and "Creator" and other concepts as "nature" of another name, and to "self", and "independence of "and so exclude the interpretation of" materialization "of" objects "of any outside motivation, and then denied the" Creator "of the bit cell; humbly believe such interpretation or theory within the difficult and exceedingly difficult coherence in the" Zhuangzi "literature . This paper argues that Zhuangzi's philosophy of "Heaven" and "Creator" actually refers to some kind of a bit beyond the master grid, and the proof of the following steps. First, this article will be strictly based on the literature, by the analysis of "Heaven" and "Creator" in the Zhuangzi universe refers to "objects" of the discussion there of the role played by positive proof "day" or "Creator" has indeed bit beyond the grid of the master. Second, this paper will argue quite popular of the "self-caused," "self", and "independence" of other phrases in the Crosstalk "Zhuangzi" difficult to pass when there stifling place, so as to negate the idea of the Creator with the philosophy of Chuang-bit format of the arguments are exceedingly difficult set up. Recent scholars of Zhuangzi's philosophy mostly follow Guoxiang's annotations of Zhuangzi and understand the concepts of "heaven" and "the creator" as "the way it is." Moreover, through such interpretations as "self-generation" and " independent transformation, "these scholars consider nothing but" entity "to be the cause of" transformation of entity "and thus deny the personality of" the creator. "In the writer's opinion, such interpretations neither theoretically fit nor textually assimilate into Zhuangzi. It's claimed here that, in Zhuangzi's philosophy, "heaven" or "the creator actually refers to some transcendental ruler who has personality, and the argument proceeds along the following steps. First, this article will stick closely to the texts and, by means of analyzing the roles of "heaven" and "the creator" in both Zhuangzi's cosmology and the discussion about the being of entity, confirm positively that "heaven" or "the creator" is indeed the transcendental ruler, who has personality. Second, it is argued that those quite popular theories about "self-cause," "self-generation" and "independent transformation" are not appropriate approaches to Zhuangzi. Therefore, these approaches are poorly-founded denials of the personality of the creator in Zhuangzi's philosophy