Bab 90: Chapter 79 I am Zhao Ziyu

"To act or not to act," this was the fundamental disagreement between Confucianism and Daoism.

The reason why Daoists advocate "non-action" lies in three aspects:

In the past there was non-action, and now there is action; the Dao practices non-action, yet virtue takes action; Heaven practices non-action, yet humans take action.

Thus, the debate between Confucianism and Daoism is also a debate of the past versus the present, of morality, and of Heaven versus humans.

The right and wrong of both Confucian and Daoist schools also stem from here.

This time the debate between Zhao Rong and Tao Yuanran centered on these three points.

Zhao Rong and Tao Yuanran confronted each other sharply.