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  • Daoist Reflections on the S...
    D’Ambrosio, Paul Joseph

    Religions (Basel, Switzerland ), 10/2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 10
    Journal Article

    Nearly all philosophical inquiry is rooted in contingency. From ontology and theories of God to politics and ethics, dealing with, explaining, planning for, or even following contingency is a consistent theme. In the background of their recent works, Michael Sandel, Hartmut Rosa, John Gray, and Richard Rorty all see contingency and autonomy in a see-saw relationship: more of one correspondingly results in less of the other. Daoist philosophical reflections provide a different take on contingency. We can still have an experience of "self" and of making choices without positing any notion of autonomy outside of contingency.