"Sorrow and the Sage: Grief in the Zhuangzi" Self-Quiz

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. What do Seneca and Zhuangzi share in common?

Both hold that one should never grieve someone's death correct incorrect

Both hold that death isn't something bad correct incorrect

Both advocate the importance of human convention correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Zhuangzi's grief is a response to what kind of norm, according to Olberding?

A social norm correct incorrect

A religious norm correct incorrect

A natural norm correct incorrect

A moral norm correct incorrect

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. Why doesn't Olberding think we should interpret Zhuangzi's grief as a moment of akrasia?

Because there are other moments where he feels grief throughout the texts correct incorrect

Because he doesn't repudiate his having felt it correct incorrect

Because akrasia would mean his grief was appropriate correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Olberding follows Ted Cohen in taking humor to be importantly tied up with . . .

Constraint and power dynamics correct incorrect

Anomalousness correct incorrect

Feelings of superiority or powerlessness correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. Olberding interprets Zhuangzi as suggesting what about our emotional responses?

We should try to overcome all of them correct incorrect

Only some sorts of emotional responses, like grief, are okay, but not fear or anger correct incorrect

We should be wary of them, but not too quick to simply give them up correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Seneca and Zhuangzi both take death not to be bad but just part of the natural order of things.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Zhuangzi grieved his wife's death as an ordinary person would in his society.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Something is globally natural, according to Olberding, if it accords with the macrocosmic processes that govern the wider world.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect