Philosophical Speculations

Hi Ben, In the forewords of his compilation of translations, "The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Chuang Tzu, Mencius", he discusses the different attempts by Chuang Tzu, Lao Tzu and Confucius to offer moral/social guidance grounded in the Tao cosmology/ontology. As far as I...

Hey people, Are any of you aware of the work of David Hinton, translator of chinese literature? He has translated the Tao Te Ching, book of Chuang Tzu, as well as collections of koans and zen poetry. His "thing" is a return to an ontological / cosmological interpretation of Taoism and Zen,...

I'm reading Decoding Jung's Metaphysics . Very interesting so far. Regarding the collective unconscious, it is not clear to me whether Jung regarded it as a single mental domain that we all share, or an individual mental faculty that is merely a close or near identical copy of that possessed by othe...