TY - BOOK AU - Hu,Xiangnong AU - Huang,Yong ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Ethics in the Zhuangzi: Dialogues on the State of the Field SN - 9783031698040 AV - BL1790-1945 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Springer KW - Philosophy, Chinese KW - Ethics KW - Taoism KW - Chinese Philosophy KW - Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics KW - Daoism N1 - 1 Introduction -- 2 How is Zhuangzi not a Relativist? A Critique of David Wong’s Interpretation of Zhuangzi as a Pluralistic Relativist -- 3 The Open Text of the Zhuangzi -- 4 Zhuangzi’s “Difference Stories” and Patient Moral Relativism -- 5 Difference Stories and Patient Moral Relativism in the Zhuangzi: A Response to Waldemar Brys -- 6 Ethics and Normativity in Zhuangzi: A Commentary on Jung Lee’s Ethics of Attunement -- 7 The Art of the Way: Toward a Dao-Centered Ethics in the Zhuangzi -- 8 A Zhuangzi Who Is Attentive to the World of Man: Rethinking Zhuangzi’s Ethics in the Light of Eske Møllgaard’s Interpretation -- 9 Zhuangzi, the Criminals, and Kant -- 10 The Limit of the Skill Paradigm: A Critique on Chris Fraser’s ethics of dao and de -- 11 How Dao and De Can Shape a Plausible Zhuangist Ethics -- 12 To Argue as Zhuangzi Argues: On Steve Coutinho’s Interpretation of Ethics in the Zhuangzi -- 13 Vastness, Penumbrae, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi: A Response to Robert Tsaturyan N2 - This book delves into a broad range of hitherto unresolved issues related to Zhuangzi’s ethics, which include, but are not limited to, the fundamental question of whether Zhuangzi should be regarded as a moralist in the ordinary sense and what Zhuangzi’s views on topics such as equality, moral relativism, good life, intersubjective relations, and social harmony really are. The twelve contributors to this book deliberate on these issues in six debates centering on recent influential publications in the field. In each debate, the relevant publications will be first challenged by their critic and then defended by their author, through which different and competing interpretations of Zhuangzi’s ethical themes will directly confront each other. These author-meets-critic debates will not only reflect what is currently at stake in discussing Zhuangzi’s ethics but also engage and enrich the state of the field today. This volume serves as a good companion to scholars, as well as graduate-level students, who are interested in gaining philosophical and ethical insights from Zhuangzi and Chinese philosophy in general UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69804-0 ER -