"View in Tao"and"Acquiring the Joy of Fish":Chuang-tzu's Theories of Knowing and Its Modern Educational Implications
"View in Tao"and"Acquiring the Joy of Fish"in the"Chuang-tzu·Autumn Water"are Chuang-tzu's expression and exposition of the core educational issues of what knowledge(wisdom)is and how it can be acquired.Knowledge based on"Tao"rather than"Thing"epistemologically implies a holistic path of perception.Knowledge and its acquisition is born of body-dwelling learning of the physical facts and human affairs in one's actions.These thoughts present the educational beliefs of balance-seeking in the division and integration of knowledge,wisdom acquisition through body-dwelling learning and attaining a holistic being in the unity of mind and body,and they are also the wisdom of education that contemporary educational scholars constantly review and comprehend.
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