PHIL 3920 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Tao Te Ching
26 Mar 2017
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Desirelessness is good, it"s something to cultivate. Considered the core teaching; encourages you to stop striving, and you will achieve naturalness. Laozi shares a common value with kongzi and mengzi: order. These two being the named and the nameless, being and non-being, the. Good and evil diverge in name, but are an entity (i. e. two sides of the same coin ). You can"t reach nature and pullout virtue. Even if you could it would bring out vice. If you seek virtue it will generate vice. Chapter 2 implies a level of impartiality,. In this chapter laozi outlines advice for a ruler: Make sure people don"t get too smart, and don"t let them develop virtue. If we stop striving for wealth, people will stop fighting for it, and it will be attracted to us. Seems to deny the value of ren.
