JOURNAL OF HEBEI UNIVERSITY (Philosophy and Social Science) ›› 2017, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (6): 43-48.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-6378.2017.06.007

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Zhuangzi’s Thought of “Qiwu” as Value-pluralism

WANG Shao-jun   

  1. College of Humanities and Communication, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China
  • Received:2017-05-20 Online:2017-12-20 Published:2017-12-20

Abstract: “Qiwu” is not to make everything neat and uniform, nor to indicate that all things have no difference on the fact level. Rather, it is to treat all things and viewpoints equally without discrimination, thus to break away from common practices of grading everything, liking or disliking, accepting or rejecting, and compelling others to be obedient or admiring others by discarding his own characteristics. After all, the thought of “Qiwu” is a kind of value-pluralism, which aims to maintain the morphological diversity of everything by stressing its axiological equality, and to gain existential space for everything’s diversity respectively.

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