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Philosophical concept

Ziran, self-so

Ziran, literally being so of itself, names the spontaneity of what unfolds without artificial constraint.

Works
2
Passages
82
Thinkers
2
Traditions
2

Understand uses of the concept

Ziran, literally being so of itself, names the spontaneity of what unfolds without artificial constraint.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 82 passages across 2 works, including Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue, Moral Letters to Lucilius. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: 自然, ziran, self-so

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Daodejing, Book of the Way and VirtueLaozi · 81 passages
  2. Moral Letters to LuciliusSeneca · 0 passages