Motif
Artisanship as breaking natural integrity
artisanship_as_breaking_natural_integrity
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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daoist
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Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer CHAPTER VIII. / JOINED TOES. / CHAPTER IX. / HORSES' HOOFS.; lines 4140-4251 confidence: high
The potter says he can shape clay with compasses and a square; the carpenter says he can shape wood with an arc and a line.
The passage asks whether clay, wood, jade, colours, and notes desire artificial shaping and says destruction of natural integrity to make articles is the artisan's fault.
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