Ancient philosophy within a global purview: Parmenides and Zhuangzi on expressing what can (and cannot) be known by Cantor, L

“…I do so by exploring two consequential cases, two foundational philosophers in early Greek and classical Chinese philosophy, respectively: Parmenides and Zhuangzi.</p> <p>I show how problematic assumptions inherited from mainstream macro-narratives prime us to see Parmenides as exhibiting thoroughly optimistic attitudes toward human knowledge, and Zhuangzi as either an anti-rational mystic who dismisses language or as a negative dogmatist who rejects objective knowledge (Chapter 2). …”