[17] Victor H.Mair（ed.），Experimental Essays on Chuang-tzu.pp.10-11.（原文：It will by now be clear that from the Western point of view there is something very peculiar about the Taoist attitude.We are accustomed to think in terms of a dichotomy：either as a rational agent I detach myself from nature，study the objective facts about it，make my own choices，resist becoming the plaything of physical forces like an animal，or else I welcome the Romantic idea of spontaneity，as the free play of impulse，emotion，subjective imagination.The Taoist is somewhere where this dichotomy does not apply.He wants to remain inside nature，to behave as spontaneously as an animal，to be caused rather than to choose，and concepts resembling those of stimulus and response come easily to him without the science which for us provides their context；on the other hand，he has a contempt for emotion and subjectivity，a respect for things as they objectively are，as cool and lucid as a scientist’s。）