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Philosophical Daoism
About
About
Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Jake travelled extensively, frequently residing in monasteries and religious communities, before spending over seven years in Taiwan. Jake received a Bachelor of Science, as recommended by the Department of Psychology, from National Taiwan University. He is now studying and conducting postgraduate research in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.
Jake enjoys reading and writing about Chinese and English literature. He primarily researches Chinese philosophy and focuses on Philosophical Daoism.
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Jake is currently thinking about the phenomenology of immersion: the experience of losing oneself in an activity. This phenomenology is central in early Daoist literature: the Zhuāngzǐ (莊子) foregrounds immersive experiences and introduces a concept of forgetting oneself (wàng jǐ 忘己).
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