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“In Chinese it’s called Zhuangzi, supposedly written by a man named Zhuang Zhou, and it is one of the most playful texts you’ll ever read. It’s not philosophy in the way Plato or Aristotle did it, it’s very literary and, although written in prose, wonderfully poetic. Although written in a very early period of Chinese history, the fourth century BCE, in a way it’s post-modern. It questions all the things that we take for granted…Zhuang Zhou challenges and problematises our conventional notions of reality every step of the way. He asks: Why do we make these kind of assumptions about the world?” Read more...
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Chris Livaccari, Linguist
