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Selected chapters take up names, distinctions and nonaction, and ask how restraint can support others. Questions about neglect and paternalism stay unresolved.
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Guided course · Module 4 · Lesson 16
Action without forcing
The Daodejing questions fixed names and praises wuwei, acting without forcing. When does a ruler’s restraint give others room to act, and when does it become neglect or paternalism?