 Wang Fu’s response is to advocate continuation of the work of attempting to morally rectify the community, from the outside, through such activity as scholarship and writing. Even if this is for the benefit of future generations rather than one’s own, one’s responsibility to the community and commitment to it should not diminish even when one is forced to withdraw from society due to its viciousness. While the theme of Confucian reclusion is perhaps the most important aspect of Wang Fu’s work, we find a number of other standard Confucian ideas developed in the Qianfulun, including views on rulership, virtues, learning, ritual, and even some further development of the correlative metaphysics of the earlier Han.