[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 280 KB, 708x1325, WiseChinaman.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
17064890 No.17064890 [Reply] [Original]

Was Laozi a Libertarian?

>> No.17064894
File: 114 KB, 125x125, 159675868192s.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
17064894

This is my opinion.

>> No.17064918
File: 79 KB, 600x800, IntoTheTrashNow.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
17064918

>>17064894
Nice bottle can I see it?

>> No.17065001

>>17064890
Pretty sure he is, Tao is just an early way to deal with the mathematical chaos of markets now understood through other analogies like "the invisible hand" and spontaneous order.

>> No.17065090

In a vague sense sure, but if we're applying Western political notions onto a Chinese context (don't do this, it doesn't work), I'd say he's closer to an advocate for anarcho-absolute-theocratic-monarchy.

>> No.17065114

>>17064890
anarcho-monarchism

>> No.17065277

>>17065114
Isn't that just a meme ideology?

>> No.17065294

>>17064890
Kinda.

It’s been years since I read this mystical hog wash that supposedly has a bajillion different translations with wildly different meanings but I recall that at different points Laozi seems to endorse what we would consider authoritarian rule, at the very least he wholeheartedly endorsed societal stability and harmony and disavowed notions of forceful change or progress.

As far as being a libertarian goes he also said people ought to live as simply as possible, and that the more ingenious a society’s innovations become the more monstrous its destructive capabilities and potential for ruin become. He also said chasing monetary wealth was for suckers.

>> No.17065807

>>17065277
its more like minarchist system with an absolute monarch

>> No.17065813
File: 38 KB, 542x543, 1606734811229.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
17065813

Holy fucking shit you retards can't stop comparing apples to fucking gazebos. In what fucking parallel universe does this question make any remote sense? Was peepee poopooo a feefoo foobar? Floofee beee woooo WOOOO

>> No.17065832
File: 1.79 MB, 4411x1951, 6C12D7B4-FA12-437F-BC1F-CB139785DF8A.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
17065832

>>17065813
What was his monetary policy?

>> No.17065908

>>17065813
I'm sorry that you are a brainlet anon but could you please just simmer down? There's no need to descend into some autistic glossolalia.

>> No.17065917

>>17064890
No, you'll find nothing to suggest he cared to protect private property or even value it.

>> No.17065922

>>17065294
>Laozi seems to endorse what we would consider authoritarian rule
he said the best rulers do practically nothing

>> No.17067558

>>17064890
There are certainly anarchistic themes in the Laozi. This has been known and accepted for millennia, yes. It's difficult to know what's meant to be taken dead seriously and what's meant to be read with the knowledge that of course it wouldn't actually get put into practice, though.