The Ambiguity of Text, Birth, and Nature

Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 12 (2):161-178 (2013)
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This essay examines the language of the Heng Xian and suggests that the text purposefully plays with Ru-style rhetoric, particularly that associated with the “Heart Method” for self-cultivation. The playful rhetoric is reminiscent of writings collected in the Zhuangzi and the use of parables associated with fourth century BCE philosopher Hu Shi

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