Ep. 342: Zhuangzi on Knowledge and Virtue (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
More on the Zhuangzi, books 1-6 and 17-19 with guest Theo Brooks.
We discuss epistemology (Can we know the mind of someone else? How can virtue make truth more accessible?), metaphysics (Is the world constantly changing such that we can't actually refer to anything? Does each thing somehow contain its opposite in virtue of being defined by its contrast with all that it is not?), and ethics (What constitutes the Utmost Person, i.e. the sage?).
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| 0:00.0 | Please consider purchasing the new partially examined life book, |
| 0:03.1 | a breezy read and excellent momento the ideal gift. |
| 0:06.8 | Learn more at partially examined life.com. |
| 0:09.6 | Book. You're listening to the partially examined life a podcast by some guys who at one point |
| 0:20.9 | said on doing philosophy for living with them thought better of it. Today for episode 340. some 1 through 6, our question continues to be something about what is it to be maximally virtuous or |
| 0:35.4 | maximally wise given the kind of creatures that we are. |
| 0:38.7 | This is Mark Linsomire using what my understanding understands to nourish what my understanding is not understand in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:44.6 | This is Seth Paskin, resting secure and transformation in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:49.8 | This is Dylan Casey seeing that day and night constantly come to us and without that there is nothing and without me there is nothing picked out from that in the world in medicine Wisconsin. |
| 1:00.0 | This is Theo happy like the Fukwok of Japan. |
| 1:03.8 | Welcome back Theo. |
| 1:04.8 | Yes, thanks for coming back to you. |
| 1:06.6 | So it's great having Karen on to give a full overview, |
| 1:09.0 | but we want to do our full deep dive picky thing |
| 1:11.9 | that we like to do for a full length episode here so let's do it |
| 1:16.1 | Theo you had a thing you want to start with I thought we would start with the happy fish story |
| 1:20.8 | Twangta and juta were strolling along the bridge over the Howe River. |
| 1:26.4 | Duongza said, the minnows swim about so freshly, following the openings wherever they |
| 1:31.2 | take them. |
| 1:32.2 | Such is the happiness of fish. |
| 1:34.0 | Hutsa said, |
| 1:35.0 | You are not a fish, so whence do you know the happiness of fish? |
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