Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer

Zhuangzi · English

The Chuang Tzu is the book traditionally attributed to the Taoist thinker Zhuangzi, who lived in the fourth and third centuries BC.

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Pagera Editor's Note

The Chuang Tzu is the book traditionally attributed to the Taoist thinker Zhuangzi, who lived in the fourth and third centuries BC. Through parables, dialogues, and arguments full of humor and paradox, its thirty-three chapters question fixed distinctions between right and wrong, life and death, and self and world, and favor spontaneity and freedom from worldly ambition, in stories such as the dream of the butterfly and the cook who carves an ox. This is Herbert A. Giles's translation, first published in 1889 as Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer, with his introduction and a note by Aubrey Moore on the philosophy of the first seven chapters.