ABSTRACT
Relatedly, I would like to know, how is an interpretation ‘erroneous’ or a ‘misreading’, for and
by whom? By implication, you suggest there is a ‘correct’ and ‘true’ reading. If so, who decides,
by what criteria, and for how long? Does this not suggest the kind of absolutism and universalism
that you find so distasteful in Daoism-that is, assuming you’re correct in finding it so? What if
we were to focus, instead, on why certain perspectives arise from certain corners rather than that
they do? Wouldn’t that be more productive?
