tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post401373933041355576..comments2024-03-25T11:49:21.281-07:00Comments on The Splintered Mind: The Unskilled Zhuangzi: Big and Useless and Not So Good at Catching RatsEric Schwitzgebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-53870735545896436352017-02-06T22:39:02.679-08:002017-02-06T22:39:02.679-08:00The only reason I am contributing is so I can quot...The only reason I am contributing is so I can quote <i>The Complete Idiot's Guide to Taoism</i>. They comment that "Ding" is "third", possibly the lowly position rather than the name: the attitude exemplified can be carried out by anyone, even the humblest butcher.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-25261049909775576382017-02-06T17:07:20.752-08:002017-02-06T17:07:20.752-08:00Paul Skowron said...
Thanks for this. You made me...Paul Skowron said...<br /><br />Thanks for this. You made me smile, and think, and respond:<br />https://roughlyandinoutline.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/eric-schwitzgebel-on-being-a-knife/<br /><br />In essence, I agree but doubt Zhuangzi is any more dogmatically tied to 'being useless' than he is to 'effortless action'. Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-75691855442214189332017-02-04T05:29:24.336-08:002017-02-04T05:29:24.336-08:00I agree. I don't think that Cook Ding's sk...I agree. I don't think that Cook Ding's skill is the important aspect of the story, but rather what the skill amounts to: "going by the inherent rightnesses" 因其固然 and “depending on the heavenly coherences" 依乎天理. I argue for a non-skill based reading of this passage in my article "The Radiance of Drift and Doubt: Zhuangzi and the Starting Point of Philosophical Discourse," Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 16(1). The article is available online. John R. Williamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-762274692205671992017-02-04T04:40:36.046-08:002017-02-04T04:40:36.046-08:00Thanks for this. You made me smile, and think, and...Thanks for this. You made me smile, and think, and respond:<br />https://roughlyandinoutline.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/eric-schwitzgebel-on-being-a-knife/<br /><br />In essence, I agree but doubt Zhuangzi is any more dogmatically tied to 'being useless' than he is to 'effortless action'.Paul Skowronhttps://roughlyandinoutline.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com