Roaming among the cacophony and pother: Zhuangzi, Liezi, and Eudaimonics

In this talk, I sketch out an interpretation of Zhuang-Lie assuming neither an overall meaning to life nor a specific religious metaphysics. After the Zhuang-Lie position is presented, I show that Zhuang-Lie not only proposes how to live meaningfully in the absence of a specific religious metaphysics, it also aims to show—à la Susan Wolf and Owen Flanagan—that the question of an overall meaning to life is irrelevant to the question of living meaningfully.

Date: 24 January 2017
Time: 1pm to 2pm
Venue: Philosophy Meeting Room, AS3-05-23

About the Speaker: John is a President’s Graduate Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. His primary research topic is early Daoism, on which he has articles in Philosophy East & West and Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy.

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