Those Who Act Ruin It: A Daoist Account of Moral Attunement (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Lao-Zhuang Daoism
	The Daodejing: An Introduction to Its Complexity
	Daoism as beyond Objectivism and Relativism
	“Those Who Act Ruin It”: The Daoist Alternative to Moral Fundamentalism
	Daoism as a Solution to Moral Fundamentalism
	Those Who Act Ruin It: Chapter Summary
Chapter One An Embodied Account of Experience and Meaning in Daoist Philosophy
	Daoism and Embodied Experience
	Hansen on Zhuangzi and Language
	Daoism and the Nature of Experience
	Meaning and Intelligibility in Daoist Philosophy
	Conclusion
Chapter Two “Without Action”
	Wuwei in Daoist Philosophy
	Nonegoistic Conduct (無為) in the Daodejing
	“Nonegoistic Conduct” and Spontaneity in the Zhuangzi
	Daoist Irony as a Functional Equivalent to Morality
	Institutionalized Morality and Metaphysics as Self-Undermining
	Philosophical Irony, Dewey, Rorty, and Lao-Zhuang Daoism
	Conclusion
Chapter Three On Being “Without Desire” in Lao-Zhuang Daoism
	The Problem of Desire
	Desire and Misperception: The Daoist Critique of Desire
	Animal Fitness, the “Center,” and “Ontological Relativity”
	Zhuangzi on the “Genuine Person”
	“Without Desire” as Sticking to Need and the Daoist Egalitarian Society
	The Daoist Account of Being “without Self-Interest”
	Conclusion
Chapter Four The “Nonnaturalistic Fallacy” in Lao-Zhuang Daoism
	A Daoist Account of Values
	Dewey’s “Philosophical Fallacy”: Daoism’s “Nonnaturalistic Fallacy”
	Daoist Philosophy: On Values and Valuing
	Valuing without “Intrinsic Value” in Daoist Philosophy
	“Intrinsic Value” Is Not Possible to Value
	“Intrinsic Value” and the Metaphysics of (Racial) Oppression
	An “End-in-Itself” in Coordinating Means and Ends Is Oppressive
	Conclusion
Chapter Five Alienation and Attunement in the Zhuangzi
	The Zhuangzi on the “Sages” and “Robbers”
	Ontological Relativism and the “Muddy Confusion” (Hundun)
	Carving Up Nature: “Webbed Toes” and “Extra Fingers”
	The Zhuangzi on the Capacity for “Self-Seeing” (自見)
	Conclusion: Alienation as Ignorance
Chapter Six The Daoist Critique of Moral Bigotry
	The Daoist Sage: “Without Heart/Mind”
	Daoism and the Interdependent Self
	Criminals and the Daoist Critique of the “Moralists”
	The Daoist Solution: Seeing the Oneness of All Things
	Conclusion
Conclusion A Daoist Alternative to the “Sages”
	Challenging Western Moral Metaphysics
	Those Who Act Ruin It
Notes
Works Cited
Index