20.500.12556/RUL-178348 Encountering the Zhuangzi Adaptability and Emptiness in the Story of Huzi, Jixian, and Liezi Srečanje z Zhuangzijem prilagodljivost in praznina v zgodbi o Huziju, Jixianu in Lieziju The Zhuangzi 莊子 often uses its multicoloured characters and imaginative stories to make its points. So much so that one of these characters is, I wish to argue, a stand-in for the text of the Zhuangzi itself. Huzi 壺子, when he meets Jixian 季咸 through the intermediary of his student Liezi 列子, exhibits the kind of emptiness that characterizes the text. This emptiness pertains to his ability to change forms as he wishes, for he is never fixed into one singular shape. He represents the adaptable and flexible behaviour which enables one to use specific schemes of valuation with parsimony, when they are adapted to the context, and never to remain fixed on one single such scheme. Jixian and Liezi are, in my interpretation, two readers of the text who come at it from different yet fixed angles. Their backgrounds and reactions while reading the text teach us the ways one can deal with that emptiness. One could try, like Jixian, to apply one’s own standards to the text, witness its resistance, and leave in frustration. Or one could, like Liezi, realize that the text’s emptiness is an invitation to leave the text behind and to discard fixed and single-minded valuation schemes. In the end, this cautionary tale aptly represents the text’s non-judgmental openness as well as its subtly subversive critique of the attitudes to learning and applying what one has learned prevalent in its time. Zhuangzi 莊子svoje pisane like in domiselne zgodbe pogosto uporablja za ponazoritev svojih spoznanj. Trdim, da je tako celo v tolikšni meri, da eden izmed likov deluje kot nadomestek za samo besedilo Zhuangzi. Ko Huzi 壺子 prek svojega učenca Liezija 列子 sreča Jixiana 季咸, predstavlja vrsto praznine, ki zaznamuje celotno besedilo. Ta praznina se kaže v Huzijevi sposobnosti, da po želji spreminja svojo obliko, saj nikoli ni omejen na eno samo, določeno podobo. Predstavlja prilagodljivo in prožno vedênje, ki nam omogoča varčno oziroma preudarno uporabo določenih vrednostnih shem, kadar so ustrezne glede na kontekst, pri čemer nikoli nismo omejeni na eno samo shemo. V tem smislu Jixian in Liezi nastopata kot dva bralca Zhuangzija, ki k besedilu pristopata z različnih, toda določenih zornih kotov. Njuno ozadje in odzivi med branjem besedila nas učijo različnih načinov soočenja s to praznino. Bralec lahko, tako kot Jixian, na besedilo poskuša aplicirati lastne kriterije, naleti na odpor in v frustraciji odneha. Lahko pa tudi, tako kot Liezi, spozna, da je praznina besedila povabilo k preseganju samega besedila in opuščanju togih, enostranskih shem vrednotenja.Navsezadnje ta opozorilna pripoved ustrezno ponazarja Zhuangzijevo neobsojajočo od-prtost ter njegovo subtilno subverzivno kritiko tedanjih pristopov k učenju in uporabi pridobljenega znanja. Zhuangzi 莊子 Huzi 壺子 adaptability emptiness Daoism Zhuangzi莊子 Huzi 壺子 prilagodljivost praznina daoizem true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-01-23 12:11:40 2026-01-23 12:11:42 2026-01-27 15:32:34 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0 0 0 Str. 349-371 no. 1 Vol. 14 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-01-09 2232-5131 2350-4226 https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2026.14.1.349-371 RAZ_Chantry-Gellens_Thaddee_0.pdf RAZ_Chantry-Gellens_Thaddee_0.pdf 1 BE8A14162F79C7A45AC399EFF6E1DD3B 61c41766ad247ac03b3bf6a64c0c11af63175d2041f08b4256c8fc522c3571e3 9be2b703-f84c-11f0-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=226122 https://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/23929 0 008c9d11-fb8d-11f0-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=226306 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0