Books That Matter: The Analects of Confucius

Confucius's Daoist and Legalist Critics (1x20)

Air date: Dec 08, 2016

The ideas espoused in the Analects had their share of critics. Here, take a look at some of the most prominent of these, including Xunzi, who felt that humans were born flawed; Daoist critics like Zhuangzi; and the Legalist philosopher Han Fei, who considered Confucius to be a fuzzy-minded dilettante.