Zhuangzi
OriginChina
Era369 BC
SchoolDaoism
About Zhuangzi
Author of the most playful book in philosophy. The butterfly dream asks how we can know waking from dreaming. The cook who carves an ox shows effortless skill moving with the grain of things. Ridiculed rigidity, pomposity, and useless argument. Held that every perspective is limited, and wide vision dissolves disputes. After his wife died he sang rather than despair.