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The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness: Engaging the Daoist Zhuangzi in Studies of Cultivated Forgetting

The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness: Engaging the Daoist Zhuangzi in Studies of Cultivated Forgetting

Wang, Youru

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyTaoism

ISBN10: 1032300736
ISBN13: 9781032300733
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 12 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book investigates the various meanings of forgetting and their ethical dimension in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi.

It responds to recent scholarship in the study of the ethics of forgetting, which has only emerged within the past two decades in the wake of the widespread memory-studies of the late 20th century. This book accomplishes two goals: First, it assimilates insights from contemporary scholarship, and specifically applies Ricoeur's three areas of ethical examinations of forgetting, to the study of the Zhuangzi. It addresses a wide range of ethical themes related to acts of forgetting, such as the meaning of well-being and healing, the issue of personal identity and relational autonomy, the norm of spontaneity, naturalness and suitability, the capacities for being empathic, altruistic and responsive to others, and the values of accommodation, receptivity and all-inclusive friendliness. Second, it places forgetfulness in the wider context of the Zhuangzi's ethical inquiry, and offers a novel understanding of this age-old notion and its exegetic tradition, bringing them into dialogue with Western philosophy and contributing to contemporary discourse on the ethics of forgetting.

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