HPC 41. To Speak or Not to Speak: Skepticism in the Zhuangzi

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  HPC 42. A Black and White World: the Zhuangzi on Shi-Fei Dogmatism

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  18:56

  The Zhuangzi’s critique of dogmatic approaches to argumentation and governing the state.
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  HPC 41. To Speak or Not to Speak: Skepticism in the Zhuangzi

  11/23/2025

  23:26

  We introduce the second great classic of Warring States Daoism, the Zhuangzi, and ask whether it adopts a position of radical skepticism.
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  23:38

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  17:48

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  HPC 35. Way Better than Greenwashing: Daoism on Nature

  7/27/2025

  21:30

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  HPC 34. You Don’t Say! the Dao That Cannot Be Told

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  23:31

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  HPC 33. Let Us Count the Ways: What is Daoism?

  6/29/2025

  18:14

  What does “Daoism” refer to in a range of contexts, and how have excavated texts changed our understanding of the tensions between Daoism and Confucianism?