Fu Hsiang, for his part, is not unlike Socrates,
in that his questions are designed to lead the
students to knowledge by exposing the
contradictions in their thinking. His technique,
of asking apparently irrelevant questions and
then accumulating the answers into a refutation
of his student's position or a defence of his
own, are very much in the spirit of the elenchus
of Socrates.It is my hope that these dialogues
will be read by people who are interested in the
spirit and practice of Taoism.
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