China’s ‘social credit system’: What would Lao Tzu say?

By: Brannon Gerling Can China’s new ‘social credit system’ ethically enlighten its citizens? How would Lao Tzu (6th c. B.C.E.), the central figure in Taoism—that cherished self-exiled sage sapped by the stultifying monotony of the Zhao dynasty—treat all this ado? Unlike Confucius’s style of virtue-based ethics which rest heavily on the sharpening of moral character, […]