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Humor in Zhuang Zis Philosophy

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Zhuang Zis Insights

into the Dao

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The is the absolute reality that

simply transcends and governs beings.

The is incommunicable and without

form but responsible for the myriadexistence of things.

Since is the principle of all things it

is found in them.

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For the truth-seekers, trapped within the

categories and distinctions of reason, thereis always an attempt to determine and limit

the Dao into pure concepts.

The search for Dao must go far beyond the

categories of things, that is, as the Ultimate Way,

it transcends all things.

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Reality is relative.

Everything is that in relation to other

things and this in relation to itself.

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Beneath this relativity is the view that

there is an underlying unity of things

that transcend all these distinctions, theDao.

Zhuang Zi urges one to go beyond the

relativity of all things because at bottom

these distinctions are no distinctions.

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Distinctions are removed and a unifying spirit ensues.

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Limited knowledge is confined to

distinctions and disputation and

argumentation.

Great knowledge dissolves these distinctions.

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Great knowledge is knowledge of theDao, which is nameless and

ineffable.

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By we mean a conditionthat is easily changed and quickly gives

place to its opposite. Thus heat, cold,

disease, health and so on are

dispositions. For a man is disposed in

one way or another with reference to

these, but quickly changes becoming

cold instead of warm, ill instead of well.

So it is with all other dispositions.

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ZhuangZis Humor as a disposition is a way ofbeing-in-the-world.

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Mankind, overburdened with this load of

ideas and ambitions and social systems,

seems unable to rise above them.

Luckily, however, there is a power of thehuman mind which can transcend all

these ideas, thoughts and ambitions

and treat them with a smile, and thispower is the subtlety of the humorist.

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To view reality with a great sense of profundity.

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II. Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wilhelm

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HAVE YOU

STERILIZED THENEEDLES?

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ability of theindividual totranscendhis emotionor passionand facereality withanawesomespirit-a spiritwhich is freeand goesbeyond

conformity

independence

of thinkingDEEPTHOUGHTS

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III. FREUD, SIGMUND

A. Techniques in Wit

Word-wit wit focuses on the use of word, from

the similarity in words to the similarity in the

sounds or from the mixture of the wordformation to the word modification

Thought-content - ranges from the ambiguity in

words to the point of nonsense

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B. Types of Wit

Harmless Wit wit for its own sake

Tendentious Wit avenue for expressing alot of tendencies which are oftentimes

inhibited in ordinary social interactions

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C. Psychic Manifestations in the Wit

Play of Words and Thoughts

The source of amusement

Economy of psychic expenditure

Very source of pleasure

The pleasure experienced in the removal of

the inhibitions

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D. Humor

Means to gain pleasure despite the painful

affects which disturb it and acts as a substitute

for this affective development and takes its

placeAttempt at coping with a situation full of affects

such as compassion, anger, pain, etc. (end of

thinking capacity)

E. Laughter

Discharge of energy

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