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Why Zhuangzi's real discovery is one that lets him stop doing philosophy when he wants to.(Critical essay)
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Philosophy East and West
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July 1, 2008
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Introduction
A text of great interest to Western philosophers, the Zhuangzi is enormously difficult to decipher. The bizarre stories of criminals, strange animals, and unresolved rhetorical questions, no less than the use of what appears to be technical language about language, provide obstacles to understanding the text. Indeed, some of the complexity may have been intentional. Like many of Nietzsche's writings, this text may have been designed so as to frustrate interpretive closure. This worry raises the question of whether it should be possible in any definitive way to understand the text. This caveat acknowledged, I would like to explore and defend a possible reading ...
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