Malcolm Keating
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first heard Sep 2019
last heard Sep 2024
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What's the distinction here between um the idea of God in in the two traditions as you understand it?
Yeah.
Okay.
So so then if um and if we're thinking about metaphysical freedom for Guo Xiang, if he's not starting from the the basis of there being an um omnibenevolent, omnipotent, personal uh God, um
What is his idea of metaphys physical freedom as you understand it?
Uh it's not necessarily um autonomy as you're characterizing things, as I understand.
Um, but what is it that he's concerned with with what you call an English uh freedom?
Okay, so would maybe he's thinking about things more along the lines of um modern philosophers who maybe bracket bracket God and are thinking about how freedom, uh free will can be compatible with a deterministic physical universe.
Is it more along those lines or still something different?
Okay, great.
So uh maybe let's talk then a little bit about the Zhuangzi.
Again, we're gonna necessarily be going back and forth, right, between uh the Zhuangzi and Gossiang's ideas because they're so interrelated.
Um, in the first chapter you take on some questions about how to read the Zhuangzi, and here's a place where you intervene in some of the contemporary discussion about reading the the Zhuangzi.
Um
Focusing about
Some debates on that text's relevance for political thought.
So here we're shifting from the m the the conception of metaphysical freedom for just a moment to think about political thought for for just a second.
So maybe first of all, why is there a debate about the Zhuangzi and politics?
What's going on in that text that poses some
different interpretations or controversies around politics and ethics.
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