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Issue No. Issue 61 
Title Transcultural Dialogue between Zhuangzi and Honneth ——The New Model of Equal Dialectic between Admit Nature and Admit Culture 
Author Lai, Hsi-san 
Page 23~68 
Abstract This article wants to explore two basic concepts of the Zhuangzi,one is thingingness and the other is nature,according to the method of trans-cultural dialogue.I always look forward to disclose the new contemporary meaning of the ancient classical texts.Here,I expand the trans-cultural dialogue from the French scholar(like Jena François Billeter who is researching Zhuangzi ) to the Germany scholar (like Axel Honneth who belong to the critic theory and published a book about Reification recently).Through the trans-cultural interpretation between Zhuangzi and Honneth,I will reconstruct the contemporary meaning about the thingingness and nature.To sum up,I obtain two important conclusions: 1.We must consider the new model of equal dialectic between admit nature and admit culture. 2. Thingingness has its ontological dimension from the original meaning,and it can provide therapeutic function to the reification in the capitalism.
 
Keyword Zhuangzi, Axel Honneth, nature, thingingness, transculture 
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