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  1. Zhuangzi and Simone Weil on Decreating the Self.Ryan Harte - 2022 - Comparative and Continental Philosophy 14 (3):281-294.
    This essay thinks through Nanguo Ziqi’s famous “I lost myself” (wu sang wo 吾喪我) remark in the Qiwulun 齊物論 in light of Weil’s notion of decreation. The desire to undo the self is paradoxical, and most philosophical interpretations of the Zhuangzi passage try to avoid the paradox of “I lost myself” by positing various levels of self. Weil’s decreation embraces the paradox, and thereby helps clarify how Nanguo’s “I lost myself” connects with his subsequent metaphor of pipes of Heaven. More (...)
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  • Which Button Do I Push? More Thoughts on Resetting Moral Philosophy in the Western Tradition.Ronnie Littlejohn - 2021 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 20 (1):49-67.
    This article investigates Michael Slote’s call for rebalancing Western moral philosophy by using Chinese philosophy, especially Confucianism, as a form of moral sentimentalism. I agree with the need for a correction of the over reliance on reason in Western moral philosophy, but I reject the rational/sentimental dichotomy and focus on the importance of the will. I make use of the important contribution made by Daoism and the conduct concept of wu-wei 無為. I explain the use of wu-wei in Daoist texts (...)
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