Zhuangzi: Being One with Ten Thousand Things

Friday, December 29, 2023

What Is It

Zhuangzi, the 4th-century-BCE Chinese philosopher, was arguably the most important figure in Daoism. He believed that a person’s ideal relationship to the world was to "be one with a thousand things." So how is someone supposed to achieve this ideal? What is at the core of Zhuangzi's conception of the good life? And how could contemporary western readers benefit from his way of thinking? Josh and Ray welcome back Paul Kjellberg from Whittier College, editor of Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in The Zhuangzi.