Zhuangzi's Outlook On Life And Death

Life and death is the most basic phenomenon among all living creatures without exception of human beings. Differing from the common animals, people have the self consciousness to life and death. People ponder over life and death. How to understand life and death has close relation with how to understand ourselves, the society and the nature.In the aspect of the theory of life and death, all kinds of cultures accumulate abundant experience, offering especial theories and arts, so people who live in the culture can understand and carry out. Knowing the elders' wisdom and practice, we can understand life and face the death in a better way. At different stages of history, views on life and death vary. And the wisdom at the source of the civilization has more typical and genic meaning and its influence in the history would be bigger and has a longer long haul. Among the ideologist in the before-qin dynasty, Zhuangzi's outlook on life and death has the most abundant dissertation and clarify, so his theory becomes the content of my research.This research not only exhibit the frame of reference and the clew of the Zhuangzi's outlook on life and death, but also review the Zhuangzi's thoughts' origin and background at the culture and the history. So it also involves history and philosophy, the concept and the realism. And in the comparison of the outlook on life and death between Laozi and Zhuangzi, among the outlook on life and death of the Taoism, the Confucianism, the Mohism and the Jurisconsult, between the outlook on...