The Power of Reason in Chinese Philosophy

The way I like to read someone like Mozart is to remember that this sounds like and probably could have been- probably was actually the master's arguments being reported back by a not very bright and drunk disciple or by an enemy, right? You know, so you didn't have to look behind the words. So the Mozart once you make allowances for the apparent inebriation of the argumentation or treat it like one of Dostoevsky's buffoons ... there's a kernel of wisdom in there," he says.