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    Governing Through the Dao: A Non-Anarchistic Interpretation of the Laozi (review)
    Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 9 (3): 323-337. 2010.
    Within the literature, Daoist political philosophy has often been linked with anarchism. While some extended arguments have been offered in favor of this conclusion, I take this position to be tenuous and predicated on an assumption that coercive authority cannot be applied through wuwei. Focusing on the Laozi as the fundamental political text of classical Daoism, I lay out a general account of why one ought to be skeptical of classifying it as anarchistic. Keeping this skepticism in mind and re…Read more