SOURCE: Shuen-fu Lin. “Confucius in the ‘Inner Chapters’ of the Chuang Tzu.” Tamkang Review 18, nos. 1-4 (autumn 1987-summer 1988): 379-401.
In the following essay, Shuen-fu Lin argues that Chuang-Tzu uses the persona of Confucius to voice a Taoist philosophy of emptiness which repudiates the philosophy of virtue taught by Confucius.
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