The happy fish dialogue and the struggle for epistemic agency
摘要
This discussion of Michael Beaney’s The Joy of Chinese Philosophy pursues two aims. The first is to draw attention to a dimension of the happy fish dialogue in the Zhuangzi that has passed unnoticed in the literature: non-ideal epistemic agency. The second is to show that this dimension lends additional support to Beaney’s interpretation, given that his reading proves well suited to making sense of it.