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China · Literature · Hard
Which Warring States period philosophical text, named after its supposed author Zhuang Zhou, uses playful parables—like the butterfly dream—to explore relativity, spontaneity and the limits of language?
Answer: Zhuangzi — The Zhuangzi is considered the second foundational text of Daoism, and its argument that all perspectives are relative ('zhuang zhou meng die') anticipated postmodern thought by two millennia.
- A Daodejing
- B Zhuangzi ✓
- C Liezi
- D Huainanzi
The Zhuangzi is considered the second foundational text of Daoism, and its argument that all perspectives are relative ('zhuang zhou meng die') anticipated postmodern thought by two millennia.