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Lao TzuTao Te Ching
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Essay Topics
What type of person might have found the way appealing, and why?
What do you think of the Taoist idea of a leader as submissive? Is this an effective mode of leadership? Why or why not?
Why does the text suggest that water is so powerful?
What is the meaning of the valley in the text?
Why does the author suggest that doing nothing will lead to everything getting done?
Do you think that submissiveness and selflessness in a leader will lead to virtue among the people?
What is the point of living a Taoist life?
Why can the way not be named?
Why does the text use so many opposites to define something?
Why does the author describe living things such as grass and the human form as pliable? What is the point of these descriptions?
