Word: cliuang
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...word for freedom means freedom and nothing else. Its origin is indeed from two characters that by themselves mean "spontaneous" and "uncontrol," but then, my dictionary tells me the word free is from "to be fond of," equally irrelevant. And finally, no one who has read a translation of Cliuang tzii or of the poetry of T'ao Yuan-ming is ignorant of the fact that for nearly 2500 years there has been a strong Chinese ideal of "the integrity of the lone individual against the group...
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