Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi Edited by Paul Kjellberg

Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi 

Edited by Paul Kjellberg and Philip J Ivanhoe

1996 State UNiversity Press New York
The Chinese philosophical text Zhuangzi, written in part by a man named Zhuangzi in late fourth century B.C.E. China, is gaining recognition as one of the classics of world literature. Writing in beautiful prose and poetry, Zhuangzi mixes humor with relentless logic in attacking claims to knowledge about the world, particularly evaluative knowledge of what is good and bad or right and wrong. His arguments seem to admit of no escape. And yet where does that leave us? Zhuangzi himself clearly does not think that our situation is utterly hopeless, since at the very least he must have some reason for thinking we are better off aware of our ignorance.
Soft cover, with some shelf wear along the pages but a great reading copy. Some pencil underlining.

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