Hi Marsha, Presumably, that's meant to read Dao-lings ? (Is it also an allusion to Ink-lings ?) Ian
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:15 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The Limit of Language in Daoism. - Koji Tanaka > > The paper is concerned with the development of the paradoxical theme of > Daoism. Based on Chad Hansen’s interpretation of Daoism and Chinese > philosophy in general, it traces the history of Daoism by following their > treatment of the limit of language. The Daoists seem to have noticed that > there is a limit to what language can do and that the limit of language is > paradoxical. The ‘theoretical’ treatment of the paradox of the limit of > language matures as Daoism develops. Yet the Daoists seem to have noticed > that the limit of language and its paradoxical nature cannot be overcome. At > the end, we are left with the paradoxes of the Daoists. In this paper, we > jump into the abyss of the Daoists’ paradoxes from which there is no escape. > But the Daoists’ paradoxes are fun! > > > http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~kangchan/readings/Laozi/Tanaka_2004.pdf > > --- > > > Marsha: > This is a relatively short paper and has an interesting computer analogy. A > Chinese story can be as interesting and perhaps better than anything from > Grimm's Fairy Tales. > > > > > > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
