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David Chai

Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, specializing in Daoism and the philosophy of nothingness (meontology); author of Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness.

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Sep 21, 2026

Ep. 22: with David Chai, Ph.D. Meontology: The Study of Non-being

Sep 21 · 2h 34m

Aldrich ChanHOST

21:13

is

David ChaiGUEST

21:13

that we are always thinking and trying to devise different ways to utilize things.

David ChaiGUEST

21:20

To do what? Not for the sake of...

David ChaiGUEST

21:22

nature as a whole, but for our own selfish gratification.

David ChaiGUEST

21:29

In nature, we don't have that.

David ChaiGUEST

21:30

Everything is done for the benefit of the collective, of the whole.

David ChaiGUEST

21:34

So one of the vessels or instruments that humans have used to great effect besides the mind is language.

53 MINS LATER

Aldrich ChanHOST

74:30

So a fair analogy, for example, the silence is necessary for music to exist within or that the canvas is necessary for art to be painted upon.