庄子乃至整个道家哲学,向来被认为崇尚自然、反对人为。荀子站在儒家立场批评庄子“蔽于天而不知人”。基于当代动物权利论争的背景重新考察这一公案,结合传统注疏分析《庄子》有关“无以人灭天”论述的涵义,可以看出庄子明确主张动物有其独立的价值与权利。结合西方思想史上有关人与动物关系的代表性观点进行考察,可以发现:批评庄子有见于动物权利而忽略人的权利的荀子,在西方不乏同道,但荀子的理论同道——当代的反动物权利论者,在有关争论中并没有取得压倒性优势;相反,其对手对他们的主要论证提出了一系列质疑。 Zhuangzi and even Taoist philosophy as a whole have always been regarded as advocating nature and opposing man. Xunzi stand in the position of Confucian criticism Zhuangzi “cover the sky and I do not know people ”. Based on the reconsideration of this case based on the background of contemporary animal rights debate, we can see that Zhuangzi claims that animals have their own independent values ​​and rights by combining the traditional analysis of the meanings of “Zhuangzi” on the exposition of “human beings without human beings”. In the history of Western thought, we can find that Xunzi, who criticizes Zhuangzi for the rights of animals and ignores human rights, has no shortage of common people in the West, but Xunzi’s theoretical fellow - contemporary anti-animal rights On the contrary, their opponents raised a series of questions about their main argument.