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All Things Are Like a Horse, or Radical Posthumanism: A Daoist Ethics for the Anthropocene and Beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao
Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao*
Affiliation:
National Taiwan University, Taipei
*
Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 1 Sec. 4 Roosevelt Rd. Da-an Dist. Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. Email: xliao@ntu.edu.tw
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Abstract

This article explores how Chinese Daoist thought can address the need of an ethics that can cope with “the Anthropocene.” It explores the similarities between Daoist thought and posthumanist theories which arose partially as a response to the challenges of the Anthropocene. And it examines how Daoist thought can radicalize posthumanist thinking by means of an ethics based on a genuinely flat ontology that treats all things, human and nonhuman, as equal.

Keywords

immanencehaecceitythe DaoZhuangziDeleuzerhizomatic flightyou (roam joyfully)posthumanism
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Articles
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Diogenes , Volume 64 , Issue 1-2: Global Ethics , February 2017 , pp. 63 - 69
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Copyright © ICPHS 2022

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