Recovering attention and respecting a finite life
Compare what each passage asks the learner to attend to. The connection is editorial and does not assert agreement between the works.
學問之道無他，求其放心而已矣Learning is framed as recovering a neglected moral capacity.
tls · CC BY-SA 4.0 · KR1h0001_011.txt, lines 560–565吾生也有涯，而知也无涯The contrast makes the limits of the learner part of the problem.
CHANT · CC BY-SA 4.0 · KR5c0126_003.txt, lines 19–29Make the comparison explicit
Compare what each passage asks the learner to attend to. The connection is editorial and does not assert agreement between the works.
孟子: Learning is framed as recovering a neglected moral capacity.
莊子: The contrast makes the limits of the learner part of the problem.
What first question makes the contrast between 日益 and 日損 useful?
What increases or decreases in this particular passage, and toward which goal? The contrast alone does not identify the content of either activity.
Shared words, images, or constructions do not by themselves establish common meaning, authorship, or origin. An explicit citation is identified only where the wording itself supports it.
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