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a breezy read and excellent momento the ideal gift.

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Book. You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who at one point

said on doing philosophy for a living living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 341 is something like, what's a chill Taoist way of dealing with

yourself and your social responsibilities.

We read books four, five and 19 of the Schwang Tzu from perhaps the late fourth century

BC E using Brooke Zipurin's 2020 translation.

More information on the book on the podcast,

please see Partially Examine Life.com.

This is Mark Linton Meyer whose intrinsic virtuosity

has yet to take tangible form in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, jolted as if kicked in Austin, Texas.

This is Dylan Casey still working on the not knowing,

the know-how of not knowing or something like that.

In our returning guest Theo introduce yourself...

This is Theo trying to catch the carders in football in Japan.

And our special guest just for this hour, please introduce yourself, Karen.

Live from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

And we are thrilled to have you on at this time.

I talked to you last year when we were doing our

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