Ethics in the Zhuangzi: Dialogues on the State of the Field

Contents
Contributors
Introduction
	1 Introduction
	2 Ethics in the Zhuangzi: The State of the Field
	3 Overview of the Volume
	4 Conclusion
	References
How Is Zhuangzi Not a Relativist? A Critique of David Wong’s Interpretation of Zhuangzi as a Pluralistic Relativist
	1 David Wong’s Interpretation and Use of Zhuangzi as a Pluralistic Relativist
		1.1 Wong’s Interpretation of Zhuangzi as a Pluralistic Relativist
		1.2 Wong’s Interesting Interpretation of Zhuangzi’s Skepticism
	2 Critique of Wong’s Interpretation of Zhuangzi
		2.1 Evaluation of Wong’s Constructionist Interpretation of the Moral Values in the Zhuangzi
		2.2 An Evaluation of Wong’s Creative Interpretation of Zhuangzi’s Skepticism
	3 Conclusion
	References
The Open Text of the Zhuangzi
	1 What Is Pluralistic Relativism?
	2 Do I Interpret Zhuangzi to Be a Pluralistic Relativist?
	3 Bai’s Criticism of the Textual Basis for My Interpretation
	4 Constructive Skepticism
	5 Is Using the Light Immune from Skeptical Doubt?
	6 Must Heaven or Humanity, or Rejecting the Bifurcation?
	7 Why I Call the Zhuangzi an Open Text
	References
Zhuangzi’s “Difference Stories” and Patient Moral Relativism
	1 Introduction
	2 The Story of Lady Li
	3 The Marquis of Lu and the Sea Bird
	4 Hundun’s Demise
	5 Bo Le’s Horses
	6 Conclusion
	References
Difference Stories and Patient Moral Relativism in the Zhuangzi: A Response to Waldemar Brys
	1 Introduction
	2 The Lady Li Story
	3 The Seabird Story
	4 The Hundun Story
	5 The Bo Luo Story
	6 Conclusion
	References
Ethics and Normativity in Zhuangzi: A Commentary on Jung Lee’s Ethics of Attunement
	1 Introduction
	2 The Concept of Morality and the Ethics of Attunement
		2.1 Reconceptualization of Morality
		2.2 Ethics of Attunement
	3 The Concept of Morality
	4 Problems of Lee’s Ethics of Attunement
		4.1 Interpretation of the Butterfly Dream
		4.2 The Way as the Source of Normativity
	5 Daoist Practical Identity
	6 Conclusion
	References
The Art of the Way: Toward a Dao-Centered Ethics in the Zhuangzi
	1 Morality as an Essentially Contested Concept
	2 Responding to the Normative Reality of the Way
	3 Toward a Dao-Centered Ethics in the Zhuangzi
	References
A Zhuangzi Who Is Attentive to the World of Man: Rethinking Zhuangzi’s Ethics in the Light of Eske Møllgaard’s Interpretation
	1 Introduction
	2 Is Zhuangzi’s Ethics Religious or Positive?
	3 Is Zhuangzi’s Moral Law Kantian?
	4 Does Zhuangzi Postulate a Distinction Between Heaven and Man?
	5 Conclusion
	References
Zhuangzi, the Criminals, and Kant
	1 Zhuangzi
	2 The Criminals
	3 Kant
	4 Conclusion
	References
The Limit of the Skill Paradigm: A Critique on Chris Fraser’s Ethics of Dao and De
	1 From Eudaimonia to Interpersonal Ethics
	2 Good Life’s Content
		2.1 Good Life and Good Skill
		2.2 Is Wandering Eudaimonia?
		2.3 Not All Skills Are Equal
		2.4 The Condition for Good Life
	3 Interpersonal Relations as a Field of Skill
		3.1 Can Zhuangzi Condemn a Daoist Nazi?
		3.2 The Problem of Harm
	4 Conclusion
	References
How Dao and De Can Shape a Plausible Zhuangist Ethics
	1 Introduction
	2 The Life of De and the “Good” Life
	3 Are All Dao Equal?
	4 Harm, Respect, and Dao
	5 “Ordinary” Patterns
	6 Malevolent Dao
	7 Conclusion
	References
To Argue as Zhuangzi Argues: On Steve Coutinho’s Interpretation of Ethics in the Zhuangzi
	1 Introduction
	2 The Sameness of Differences: The Confluence of Shifei Distinctions
	3 The Ladder of Perspectives: Da and the Optimism of Ethical Growth
	4 Is Coutinho Interpreting Zhuangzi, or Is Zhuangzi Interpreting Coutinho?
	5 Conclusion
	References
Vastness, Penumbrae, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi: A Response to Robert Tsaturyan
	1 Ethics of Interpretation
	2 Background and Genesis of a New Interpretation
		2.1 Two Over-Interpreted Shifei Passages
		2.2 Later Mohist Canon: Shifei as Dichotomous Judgment
		2.3 A Contrasting View of Opposites
		2.4 Interlude: Penumbrae and Paradox from the West
		2.5 On the “Extensiveness” of Penumbrae
		2.6 Asserting a Self-Contradiction
	3 Towards and Ethics of Indeterminacy
	4 Ethics and Vastness
		4.1 The Ethics of Evaluating Perspectives
		4.2 Mind the Gap
	References