Thesiss

This thesis contests that the cosmology of the Zhuangzi 莊子 has not been sufficiently understood and its subversive character has remained unexplained. This failure relates to the fact that scholars have encountered great difficulties in the effort to explain ancient Chinese cosm…

This dissertation argues that written form is essential, not accessory, to philosophical content, with particular focus on Plato and Zhuangzi. In the case of these two thinkers, the written forms they have left us are what I call poetic: full of metaphor, imagery, narrative, etc…

In the classical Western philosophical tradition, wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance are considered to be the "four cardinal virtues." Of this list of virtues only one, courage, or andreia in Greek, was derived from the same root (andr) that the Greeks used for the English…