Socrates and Zhuangzi

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The paper is a critical philosophical analysis of the works of Socrates and Zhuangzi. The paper analyzes how they have a similar pattern of cyclical afterlife patterns. Zhuangzi offers a distinct form of regeneration that links life with death and seems to negate the whole endgame of death that one sees a great deal in western philosophy.

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"This philosophical study will examine the nature of death and the afterlife within the philosophical writings of Zhuangzi and Socrates. By comparing and contrasting these two versions of death and the afterlife, one can realize the cyclical and rational means in which these philosophers make in their arguments. By realizing the critical views of these ancient philosophical points of view on death, one can realize how life and death are connected in two culturally different philosophies. In essence, cyclical patterns of death and the afterlife in the works of Zhuangzi and Socrates will be examined and defined within this study. The writings of Zhuangzi relate an interconnection between life and death that proposes a kind of regeneration, rather than an afterlife."

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