By Chuang Tzu, Burton Watson
This is often some of the most justly celebrated texts of the chinese language culture - awesome for either its daring philosophical mind's eye and its amazing literary type. Accepting the problem of translating this desirable vintage in its entirety, Burton Watson has expertly rendered into English either the profound suggestion and the literary brilliance of the textual content.
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One should therefore think of Confucianism and Taoism in Han times not as rival systems demanding a choice for one side or the other, but rather as two complementary doctrines, an ethical and political system for the conduct of public and family life, and a mystical philosophy for the spiritual nourishment of the individual, with the metaphysical teachings of the Book of Changes acting as a bridge between the two. This approach is well exemplified in the lives of two scholars, Shu Kuang and his nephew Shu Shou, students of the Confucian Classics who served as tutors to the heir apparent of Emperor Hsüan (r.
C), father of the historian Ssu-ma Ch'ien, wrote a brief essay, "A Discussion of the Essentials of the Six Schools," in which he reviewed the doctrines of the most important philosophical schools of the time and came out strongly in favor of Taoism. The Huai-nan Tzu, an eclectic work compiled by scholars of the court of Liu An (d. ), the king of Huai-nan, dates from the same period; it includes many excerpts from the Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu and, like Ssu-ma T'an, reserves the highest praise for the teachings of the Taoist school.
People were still free to read and study them, and we may be sure that educated men of the Han continued to savor the literary genius of Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu as they had in the past. It simply meant that Taoist writings were not accorded any official recognition as the basis for decisions on state and public affairs. In the intellectual world of late Chou times, a number of rival doctrines had contended for supremacy, and the thinkers of the age had frequently attacked each other with vigor and asperity.