ABSTRACT
Chuang-Tzu calls the Omnipresent, ‘Way’; Baruch Spinoza calls it ‘God’. The verbal differentiation of such terminology is due to the influence of their time. Chuang-Tzu’s ‘Way’ is contained in everything: ‘in the cricket, in the ant, in the smallest corn, in the bricks of the roof, in the excrements.’ Chuang-Tzu, who considers the Heavenly Way, t’ien-tao, as existing in everything and displacing itself into every-when, subsequently represents an absolute determinism. There is only one topic which surpasses our speculation: Chuang-Tzu does not plead for right and wrong, while Spinoza to the highest degree trusts in the mathematical method of demonstration. He wants to live with the underground streams of his time. Spinoza on the other hand, was anxious from his youth to give way to the controversy over right and wrong.
