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`Direction: Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows. There may be more than one question(s) based on the below passage The Chinese philosophers were not only averse to epistemology they had an almost gallic disdain for prolonged metaphysics No young metaphysician could admit that Confucius is a philosopher for he says nothing about metaphysics and less about epistemology. he is a positivistic as Spencer or Comte his concem s always for morals and the state Warse than that he is disreputably intelligible and nothing could be so damaging to a philosopher But we'modems have become so accustomed to windy verbiage in philosophy that when philosophy is presented without the verbiage we can with difficulty recognize it One must saya penalty for having a prejudice against obscurity The story tried to salt itself with a seasoning of humor not only because of wisdom is not wise if it scares away merriment but because a sense of humor teng bom of perspective bears a neer kinship to philosophy each is the soul of the other But this appears to have displeased the pundits nothing so hurt the book with them as it smiles outation for humoris disastrous to statesman and philosophers Germany could not forgive Schopenhauer his story of Lluze wann only France has recognized the death behind the stand te of Voltaire trust that the book never used its reader to supposing that by reading it they would become philosophers overnight or that they would be saved the trouble or deasure of reading the philosophers themsele Goes there is no shortcut to knowledge after forty years of seeking her one finds Truth stilled and what the showers most disconcerting tead of aiming to be a substitute for share the story macitly offered itself as an introduction and annat on it qucted the phone that there for the might sager when the bowested merait prodded the readers to the orginal texts and warning was given that reading of the day

Question: Who has Confucius been compared to?

a) Spencer
b) Compte
c) both
d None​

Answer 1

Answer:

I think both is the answer

Answer 2

Answer:

both

Explanation: