This book hypothesizes a basic misunderstanding in our commonly accepted view of the relation between reason and spontaneity. The source of this misunderstanding, Dr. Graham maintains, is the assumption that all reasoning has to be detached from the spontaneous, which is thought to function only as emotion biasing judgment. This assumption has prevented us from understanding what happens, for example, in the making of reasoned choices. Even in our most deeply considered choices, the spontaneous plays a crucial but unacknowledged role.In pursuing the far-reaching implications of his basic premise, the author proves a clear guide through a wide range of philosophical questions and makes a persuasive case for abandoning certain strictures that prevent us from expanding our understanding of both the process of reason and the nature of spontaneity.

Reason and Spontaneity: A New Solution to the Problem of Fact and Value

Politics & Social Sciences

A. C. Graham

Philosophy

Barnes&Noble Books

"A history of Chinese philosophy in the so-called Axial Period (the period of classical Greek and Indian philosophy), during which time China evolved the characteristic ways of thought that sustained both its empire and its culture for over 2000 years. It is comprehensive, lucid, almost simple in its presentation, yet backed up with incomparable authority amid a well-honed discretion that unerringly picks out the core of any theme. Garlanded with tributes even before publication, it has redrawn the map of its subject and will be the one essential guide for any future exploration. For anyone interested in the affinities between ancient Chinese and modern Western philosophy, there is no better introduction." —Contemporary Review

Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China

Open Court

At the time of his death in 1991, Angus C. Graham was one of the world's premier authorities on classical Chinese philosophy. Of particular significance is his corpus of publications on Taoism, the most important of which was his groundbreaking translation of more than three-fourths of the Chuang Tzu, first published in 1981 and, until recently, out of print for almost a decade. The current volume gathers together for the first time Graham's writings on the textual criticism and philosophy of the Chuang Tzu, most of which have heretofore been published in obscure sources. The most important of these are the textual notes that Graham wrote for publication with his original Chuang Tzu translation but which were never included therein. They were published by the School of Oriental and African Studies in a typescript of very limited circulation and have long been sought by devotees of Graham's translation. In this volume, Roth presents an edited version of these notes along with other essays on the text, philosophy and translation of this beloved Taoist classic. He concludes the volume with a colophon in which he presents a critique of Graham's textual scholarship and an attempt to resolve several outstanding text-historical issues. A complete bibliography of Graham's publications and a detailed index are also included.

A Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters (Monographs of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, 20)

Harold D. Roth

Univ of Hawaii Pr

The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that constitute the classic of Taoism, the Chuang-Tzu (or Zhuangzi). It is this core of ancient writings that is ascribed to Chuang-Tzu himself.

The Inner Chapters

Chuang, Tzu

Graham, A.C.

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

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