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How to Rule Without Taking Unnatural Actions (无为而治): A Comparative Study of the Political Philosophy of the Laozi
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 59, Number 4, October 2009
- pp. 481-502
- 10.1353/pew.0.0071
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In this essay, the understanding of naturalness and of ruling without taking unnatural actions in the Laozi will be clarified and elaborated on, and it will be argued that the Laozi offers a theoretically adequate and realistic proposal to address both the problems of its times and some of the problems of modernity.