EAS100Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pan Flute, Wheelwright, Wang Fuzhi
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The subtlety of reality: zhuangzi"s critique of language/teaching (yan ) and knowledge (zhi ) Duke huan was reading his his hall. Wheelwright pien, who was cutting a wheel just outside the hall, asked duke huan, what do those books you are reading say? the duke answered, These are the words of the sages. the wheelwright said, are the sages still around? and the duke answered, they"re dead. then the wheelwright said, well, what you"re reading then is no more than the dregs of the ancients. When you cut a wheel, if you go too slowly, it slides and doesn"t stick fast; if you go too quickly, it jumps and doesn"t go in. Neither too slowly nor too quickly- you achieve it in your hands, and those repond to the mind. There is some fixed principle that i can"t teach it to my son. Therefore what you are reading is nothing more than the dregs of the ancients.
