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1. (a) Study Mengzi 7A26 (p. 153). Note what Mengzi says there about holding to an extreme.
(b) Compare Analects 4.10: “The gentleman has no predispositions for or against”; and 18.8, where Kongzi says he has “no preconceived notion of what is permissible and what is not.”
(c) And Zhuangzi: “The sage illuminates things with Heaven’s light. He just goes along with things. What is this is also that, and what is that is also this. . . . The place where neither this nor that finds its counterpart is called the pivot of the Dao. Once the pivot finds its socket it can respond endlessly.” (217)
Explain the four passages in your own words. What is the point of each? Are all three authors making basically the same point, or are there significant differences?
2. Read Zhuangzi, Chapter Twenty-Two. It describes a series of questions for Zhuangzi from Master East Wall. After answering five times, Zhuangzi tells Master East Wall that his questions “don’t reach the substance.” (249)
What is the substance?
What is wrong with Master East Wall’s questions?
What answer does Zhuangzi seem to convey to his interlocutor?
What relation has this point to other themes or ideas in the Zhuangzi?
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