PHILOS 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Factual Relativism

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Not clear who wrote these; lots of different views. Text includes sayings, dialogues, poetry, narrative, logical analysis. Chapter 1: wandering round and about, sets the tone for the rest of the text fish changing into birds, talking animals, etc, the tone is trying to break away from the normal ways of knowing things. This is because the first chapter puts a very large focus on perspective: crumbs in a puddle: are like boats in water, given a tiny perspective. Whether something is big or small depends on your perspective, (likewise for little things flying low): the way the world looks is dependent upon you. The dao is less a mystery, as in laozi, and more the everyday world around us: chapter 2, conventional knowledge is supposed to get at the way the world really is. Zhuangzi (and daoists in general) disagree: against conventional knowledge and the distinctions that come with it, p. 218 a way is made by walking it.

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