Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the ZhuangziThe Chinese philosophical text Zhuangzi, written in part by a man named Zhuangzi in late fourth century B. C. E. China, is gaining recognition as one of the classics of world literature. Writing in beautiful prose and poetry, Zhuangzi mixes humor with relentless logic in attacking claims to knowledge about the world, particularly evaluative knowledge of what is good and bad or right and wrong. His arguments seem to admit of no escape. And yet where