{"id":10187,"date":"2024-04-02T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T09:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/?p=10187"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:24:05","slug":"attc-tchuangtze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/attc-tchuangtze\/","title":{"rendered":"ATTC \u2014 Tchuangtze"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">ATCCT \u2014\u00a0Confucius vs Tchuang Tze<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>Inconsistency between words and deeds<\/h2>\n<p>In the following passage, ChuangTzu uses an <a href=\"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/ad-hominem-2\/\"><strong>ad hominem<\/strong><\/a> argument to accuse the Confucians of opportunism and amorality,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ch\u2019ang, Viscount T\u2019ien Ch\u2019eng, murdered his sovereign and stole his state, and yet Confucius was willing to receive gifts from him. In pronouncement they [the Confucians] condemned them, but in practice they bowed before them. Think how this contradiction between the facts of word and deed must have troubled their breasts! Could the two help but clash? So the book says, Who is bad? Who is good? The successful man becomes the head, the unsuccessful man becomes the tail.<\/strong><br \/>\nC<em>huang Tzu<\/em>, chap. 29, <em>Robber Chi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A dialectician might try to correct his interlocutor\u2019s understanding; Chuang Tzu is content to condemn the Confucian\u2019s behaviour and resign himself to their good fortune.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATCCT \u2014\u00a0Confucius vs Tchuang Tze Inconsistency between words and deeds In the following passage, ChuangTzu uses an ad hominem argument to accuse the Confucians of opportunism and amorality, Ch\u2019ang, Viscount T\u2019ien Ch\u2019eng, murdered his sovereign and stole his state, and yet Confucius was willing to receive gifts from him. In pronouncement they [the Confucians] condemned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10190,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187\/revisions\/10190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}