Two ways to question inherited authority
Hanfeizi makes changed circumstances a reason to reconsider practices. Mencius challenges unqualified acceptance of a particular received text. The comparison concerns how a reader evaluates inheritance; it does not make their standards of judgment identical.
世異則事異Changed times are used to motivate a change in affairs.
tls · CC BY-SA 4.0 · KR3c0005_049.txt, lines 197–207盡信《書》，則不如無《書》Trust in a textual collection is subjected to judgment.
tls · CC BY-SA 4.0 · KR1h0001_014.txt, lines 48–55Make the comparison explicit
Hanfeizi makes changed circumstances a reason to reconsider practices. Mencius challenges unqualified acceptance of a particular received text. The comparison concerns how a reader evaluates inheritance; it does not make their standards of judgment identical.
韓非子: Changed times are used to motivate a change in affairs.
孟子: Trust in a textual collection is subjected to judgment.
Which passage questions a document’s account rather than directly comparing historical circumstances?
Mencius, which goes on to name the Wu cheng section of the Documents.
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