Moeller on Heroism and Noble Failure.

[the_grynne]

There's a lot in Hans-Georg Moeller's The Philosophy of the Daodejing that I take issue with. His insistent on the Laozi as (mainly) an elitist manual of male statesmanship, for one thing - completely disregarding his prior comment that the written version that has been passed down to us virtually unchanged over the last 2000 years, very likely had

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[rodlox]

>>In comparison with the above patterns of heroism, the military leader in the Laozi is clearly an antihero,
Fail, Moeller. that's not "a comparison with the above pattern", that's an "in keeping with the above pattern."

an interesting comparison, to be sure - though points like that, do muddle the result he was aiming for.

[the_grynne]

Clearly, he doesn't know his Lethal Weapons. ;)