
Ep. 312: The Dao De Jing on Virtue (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is There a Virtue of Der? Is It a Good Deed?
The term der head charisma does have this idea that it draws people in. It can be thought of of dual the ship on like the most basic level is organized around these people who people organize around for some reason, because they have der. So there's I think in an older text, an example of dirt is I throw you a peach and you throw me a plum. There's no conscious valuing of what's going on. No kind of market value. You're just, I do a good deed to you. And virtue, like in the Confucian sense, is a good deed, a good thing.
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