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SUMMARY:Chinese Recipes for Ass-Kicking and Numbers-Taking (Reprise) (In-Pe
 rson Meeting)
LOCATION:Kapéj Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 26% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nNo background information is necessary for this meetup.\n
 \nMuch of the reason I chose Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? for our l
 ast meeting was due to it being an exemplar of analytic philosophy. Much o
 f the reason I choose Zhuangzi for this meeting is due to it being an exam
 plar of a radically different approach to philosophy.\n\nMany of the chall
 enges involved are so different they could be considered opposite. Zhuangz
 i is rife with paradoxes and contradictions. It is written in an unfamilia
 r style. It comes from a culture endemic to ancient China - a foreign cont
 ext in time and location. Difficulties arising due to translation from anc
 ient Chinese are compounded by copious wordplay and metaphor.\n\nYet\, Zhu
 angzi is too playful and lighthearted to prevent these difficulties from d
 issolving - if we free effortlessness and allow them to.\n\nThe passages a
 re discrete and disorganized\; there is no continuity from one to the next
 . Much like painting given a palette containing an unexpectedly large arra
 y of colors but unexpectedly little of each\, we must make due with what w
 e are given and compensate for the paucity of one color through creative u
 se of the rest.\n\nThis lack of continuity - this discreteness - liberates
  us to traverse any permutation of the work’s passages. It also liberates 
 an advantage often held captive when addressing a single work across many 
 meetings – missing a meeting doesn't matter as much.\n\nCapricious\, facet
 ious\, and blithe\, yet often derisive\, vulgar\, and irreverent\, Zhuangz
 i addresses life’s heaviest burdens by prancing around and mocking them as
  well as our attempts at dealing with them.\n\n---------------------------
 ---------------------------------\n\nWe will start discussing Zhuangzi dur
 ing this meeting\, and I will use Burton Watson's translation. Links to th
 is translation are below.\n\nZhuangzi - Burton Watson Online\nZhuangzi - B
 urton Watson Book PDF\n\nThey link to the same translation\, but the first
  presents it with a strange color palette\, and the second presents it wit
 h strange formatting. Pick your poison.\n\nYou are free to use any transla
 tion. It may be interesting to compare different translations\, as I have 
 not looked at any other. Countless free versions of Zhuangzi and various t
 ranslations are provided by a simple google search.\n\nWe will discuss "Se
 ction 3: The Secret of Caring for Life" and\, if there is time\, we will m
 ove on to "Section 5: The Sign of Virtue Complete". As usual\, the reading
  is short.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------
 \nLinks to some of my previous meetups are below.\n\nFamily and Fractal Co
 smology\nHow to Enjoy a Tasty Snack of Minced Human Liver\nCharacter as th
 e Source of Virtue\nA Defense of that which Requires None: Common Sense\nP
 rolonging Disfigures\, Exertion Deranges\nBroken Paragon\nWhat to morality
 \, is proof to truth?\nBack to the Roots – Man’s Search for Meaning
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