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Tao,Spirit of Art and the Alienation of Labor——On Zhuang-zi's Thought of Anti-Alienation

Yang You-qing

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Zhuang-zi has thought that the continuous discord and the endless controversy derived from the loss of human's nature which caused by the different recognition of righteousness and falseness that rendered people's minds have been slaved by thingness.His description of Alienation on moral codes shared the same social function with Marx's Alienation of labor.This article is trying to explore Zhuang-zi's thought of Anti-Alienation in frame of Marx's Alienation of labor.Zhuang-zi contended that people should resist alienation to unify the objecthood and subjecthood and to reach the state of materialization by eliminating the thought of righteousness and falseness and by keeping up with the surroundings in order to get away from the reality.

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Zhuang-zi has thought that the continuous discord and the endless controversy derived from the loss of human's nature which caused by the different recognition of righteousness and falseness that rendered people's minds have been slaved by thingness.His description of Alienation on moral codes shared the same social function with Marx's Alienation of labor.This article is trying to explore Zhuang-zi's thought of Anti-Alienation in frame of Marx's Alienation of labor.Zhuang-zi contended that people should resist alienation to unify the objecthood and subjecthood and to reach the state of materialization by eliminating the thought of righteousness and falseness and by keeping up with the surroundings in order to get away from the reality.

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Zhuang-zi has thought that the continuous discord and the endless controversy derived from the loss of human's nature which caused by the different recognition of righteousness and falseness that rendered people's minds have been slaved by thingness.His description of Alienation on moral codes shared the same social function with Marx's Alienation of labor.This article is trying to explore Zhuang-zi's thought of Anti-Alienation in frame of Marx's Alienation of labor.Zhuang-zi contended that people should resist alienation to unify the objecthood and subjecthood and to reach the state of materialization by eliminating the thought of righteousness and falseness and by keeping up with the surroundings in order to get away from the reality.

Key concepts: Alienation, Righteousness, Sociology, Frame (networking), Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, Social science

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