
Ep. 312: The Dao De Jing on Virtue (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is the Wang B the Text B of the Mwang?
The received text is the text we get from a commentator in the late Han or early three states period. So that's what we had until they started to dig things up in the first in the early seventies and then the early nineties. It took I think 20 years for them to put into some kind of order that they thought it probably should have been in. The people considered traditionally competent are again being considered competent according to narrow Confucianist standards. But the sages, they don't have to reject something just because it's not sort of part of the doctrine or in the it's not in the manual. You're going off book. It's okay to go off book
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