Wang Bi's Commentary on the Analects: A Confucian-Daoist Critique of Effable Morality

Wang Bi's philosophy, largely studied through his essays and commentaries on the Zhouyi and Laozi, is widely regarded as ultimately advocating Confucian virtues through the use of Daoist logic, vocabulary, and concepts. In his oftignored commentary to the Lunyu, however, Wang Bi presents a different view, namely a Daoist-Confucian critique against the fixation on linguistic representations of morality.