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**** Corie Hahn **                   **__Introduction__:** The chapter begins by the author explaining how it was strange for the Western's perception of Taoism in the way that it originally represents, the "whole man", or the "true man", or the "spirit man" as generally known as being the brain, and in this way, symbolized by the owl. Benjamin Hoff explains about this further that this is not the case, and that there are differences    <span style="display: block; font-size: 300%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(0, 135, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-size: 40%; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> between actually having the knowledge and the experience, rather than merely the knowledge itself. "Rather than learn from Taoist teachers and from direct experience, he learns intellectually and indirectly, from books." (Tao of Pooh, page 25) helps to support this idea that Hoff keeps putting forth in the rest of the chapter.
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__**The Criticism Begins:**__ In the core of all of this, Hoff also explains the difference between Confucianism and Taoism. For example, "The Confuscionist, Desiccated Scholar is one who studies Knowledge for the sake of Knowledge, and who keeps what he learns to himself or to his own small group, writing pompous and pretentious papers that no one else can understand, rather than working for the enlightenment of others. How's that?" (Tao of Pooh, page 26) also shows that the main idea that Benjamin Hoff claims is that Confucianism only studies for the knowledge, and not for the experience, and tends to keep the knowledge for himself for the selfish benefit, and thus, those papers are unrealistic for people to begin believing in. He also states how it always uses big words to describe his theories which in the end, potentially, nobody can really understand and therefore, when they do tend to criticize it, they can't necessarily be wrong because it's so confusing to understand <span style="display: block; font-size: 300%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(0, 135, 255); text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 300%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(0, 135, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-size: 40%; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> __**As A Whole:**__ Benjamin Hoff explains about how the uncarved block really criticizes the fact that they are being put to blame, for example, one's ignorance or belief in which they are either blinded by materialistic possessions or anything out of what the real principle stands, and thus, we can see that there is a main difference between actually having the intelligence and the experience along with it, than rather merely the knowledge as the owl symbolizes. In conclusion, this chapter really focuses on the differences between Confucianism and Taoism and moreover, the core principles that one philosophy leads on.

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