WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Its main themes are of spontaneity in action and of freedom from the human world and its conventions. The fables and anecdotes in the text attempt to illustrate the falseness of human distinctions between good and bad, large and small, life and death, and human and nature.

Detailed explanation-2: -Zhuangzi focuses on the social perspective, though he sometimes notes differences in perspective within the same person at different times. His main target is the way conflicting attitudes come from using different moral language. He uses the moral debate between Confucians and Mohists as the key example.

Detailed explanation-3: -Knowledge and the Dao capturing only part of the whole, whereas the Zhuangzi sees them as simply being part of the whole. Therefore all perspectives are important to the Zhuangzi, whereas for the Xunzi there can be one unbiased perspective which is more important than all others.

Detailed explanation-4: -Zhuangzi (Chuang-Tzu, 369-298 B.C.E.) The Zhuangzi (also known in Wade-Giles romanization romanization as Chuang-tzu), named after “Master Zhuang” was, along with the Laozi, one of the earliest texts to contribute to the philosophy that has come to be known as Daojia, or school of the Way.