Ancient · c. 369–286 BC
Who influenced Zhuangzi?
Influences
Daoist trickster-philosopher of the butterfly dream and the usefulness of the useless.
Zhuangzi was influenced by Laozi. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Zhuangzi?
Zhuangzi, or Zhuang Zhou, was a Chinese philosopher of the Warring States period, the age of the Hundred Schools of Thought.
He is credited with writing, in part or in whole, the book that bears his name, the Zhuangzi, which with the Tao Te Ching is one of the two founding texts of Taoism.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Zhuangzi?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Laozi c. 6th c. BC
Contemporaries of Zhuangzi
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Zhuangzi, with no direct line between them.
- Theophrastus c. 371–287 BC
- Mencius c. 372–289 BC
- Crates of Thebes c. 365–285 BC
- Pyrrho c. 360–270 BC
- Aristotle 384–322 BC
- Hipparchia c. 350–280 BC
Zhuangzi by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 1
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 4 — #54 of 54 among ancient philosophers
- Card rarity
- Common
Schools and lineages
- Non-Western: Confucius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Mencius, Xunzi, Nagarjuna, Adi Shankara, Ramanuja, Dōgen, Kitarō Nishida, Muhammad Iqbal
Questions about Zhuangzi
- Who influenced Zhuangzi?
- Laozi.
- Who did Zhuangzi influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Zhuangzi.
- When did Zhuangzi live?
- c. 369–286 BC. The map files Zhuangzi under the ancient world.
- How rare is the Zhuangzi card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Zhuangzi in 4 languages, which makes it a Common card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
More ancient philosophers
- Confucius 551–479 BC
- Aristotle 384–322 BC
- Plato c. 428–348 BC
- Socrates c. 470–399 BC
- Pythagoras c. 570–495 BC
- Laozi c. 6th c. BC
- Cicero 106–43 BC
- Thales of Miletus c. 624–546 BC