True Detective and Philosophy by William Irwin Jacob Graham Tom Sparrow & Tom Sparrow

Author:William Irwin, Jacob Graham, Tom Sparrow & Tom Sparrow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119280828
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2017-08-02T14:00:00+00:00

In this parable, there is an undecidable alternation between being a butterfly and being a person, with each phase being equally awake and dreaming. The traditional interpretation of this parable relates it to life and death. Guo Xiang (252–312 ce), the first and most important commentator on Zhuang Zhou, put it this way: “The distinction between dreaming and waking is no different from the differentiation, the debate, between life and death.”4 Dreaming is no less real than waking; death is no less real than life. The “transformation of one thing into another” includes waking and dreaming, as well as life and death.

Zhuang Zhou also wrote about what he called the “great awakening”: “Perhaps a great awakening would reveal all of this to be a vast dream. And yet, fools imagine they are already awake—how clearly and certainly they understand it all!”5

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