Motif
spontaneous Golden Age without conscious morality
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A motif of the Duality and Cosmic Opposition family, within the sub-family Innate nature, non-action, anti-artifice, and non-aggression. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer CHAPTER XI. / ON LETTING ALONE. / CHAPTER XII. / THE UNIVERSE.; lines 5424-5540 confidence: high
The Golden Age is described as a time when good people were not appreciated, ability was not conspicuous, rulers were beacons, people were free as wild deer, and upright, loving, true, honest, and free action occurred without conscious moral categories or transmitted traces.
The Golden Age is portrayed as a condition in which people act uprightly, lovingly, truly, and honestly without self-conscious duties or remembered traces.
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