罗思文在对西方自由主义个人观的批评中采用了一种故意的偏颇态度，这种哲学批判的方法是一种特殊时空语境中的语用行为。在特殊语境当中思考自我的方法是所有把哲学当作生活方式的人所共有的，法国哲学家萨特在人的观念问题上就展现了与罗思文相反方向的偏颇。哲学思考中故意的偏颇实践展示了一种功夫的视角，即从哲学观念对于塑造人的行为模式所起的作用以及它们发生作用的具体境况出发，来作出对它们的评价。

In his critique of Western liberalist notion of self, Henry Rosemont takes a deliberate one-sided approach, one that uses language performatively in a given particular spatiotemporal context. This method of doing philosophy is common among those who take philosophy as a way of life. French philosopher Sartre, for instance, has displayed a one-sidedness in his view about self in an opposite direction from Rosemont's. Their practices suggest a gongfu perspective, with which we evaluate philosophical ideas according to their functions in shaping human behaviors with consideration of the context of their uses.