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"Sorrow and the Sage: Grief in the Zhuangzi" Self-Quiz
Amy Olberding
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What do Seneca and Zhuangzi share in common?
Both hold that one should never grieve someones death
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Both hold that death isnt something bad
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Both advocate the importance of human convention
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None of the above
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Zhuangzis grief is a response to what kind of norm, according to Olberding?
A social norm
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A religious norm
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A natural norm
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A moral norm
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Why doesnt Olberding think we should interpret Zhuangzis grief as a moment of akrasia?
Because there are other moments where he feels grief throughout the texts
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Because he doesnt repudiate his having felt it
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Because akrasia would mean his grief was appropriate
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None of the above
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Olberding follows Ted Cohen in taking humor to be importantly tied up with . . .
Constraint and power dynamics
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Anomalousness
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Feelings of superiority or powerlessness
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All of the above
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Olberding interprets Zhuangzi as suggesting what about our emotional responses?
We should try to overcome all of them
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Only some sorts of emotional responses, like grief, are okay, but not fear or anger
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We should be wary of them, but not too quick to simply give them up
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None of the above
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Seneca and Zhuangzi both take death not to be bad but just part of the natural order of things.
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Zhuangzi grieved his wifes death as an ordinary person would in his society.
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Something is globally natural, according to Olberding, if it accords with the macrocosmic processes that govern the wider world.
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