Hope Shubert
Jennifer St. John
English Comp I
September 21, 2014
Lao-Tzu vs. Machiavelli in Karate Kid
Does all government value its people? Government can be ran many different ways with different perspectives. Lao-Tzu and Machiavelli government proves just that. Through, these different perspectives of leadership everyone can see just how different their government can be when two different types of people are running it.
Lao-Tzu and Machiavelli have completely different opinions on what it is to make a great leader and have minimal similarities. Lao-Tzu founded Taoism, which is defined by the Merriam-Webster as “a philosophy that teaches conformity to the Tao by unassertive action and simplicity.” Lao Tzu believed people should be free and politicians should only intervene when it was necessary. He states,” keeping people unaware that they are being governed, the leader allows the people to achieve good things for themselves.” On the contrary, Machiavelli’s leader is a prince. He thinks that people must be strongly governed. Though, he also believes in having greatness and is only worried about winning the war and being focused on the war. He is much less worried about his people than the way of Lao-Tzu government. …show more content…
The movie begins as a boy named Daniel moves to this new town in California where he is sadly bullied by a guy named Johnny that goes to the same school as him. It happened multiple times and Daniel’s new neighbor noticed Daniel getting bullied; his name was Miyagi. Miyagi was a karate master and he decides he is going to teach Daniel karate so he could stand up for himself. He teaches him on the Lao-Tzu basis, meaning he would only defend himself instead of fighting back at the boys as revenge. He wanted to show Daniel how to use his karate for good and not
Jennifer St. John
English Comp I
September 21, 2014
Lao-Tzu vs. Machiavelli in Karate Kid
Does all government value its people? Government can be ran many different ways with different perspectives. Lao-Tzu and Machiavelli government proves just that. Through, these different perspectives of leadership everyone can see just how different their government can be when two different types of people are running it.
Lao-Tzu and Machiavelli have completely different opinions on what it is to make a great leader and have minimal similarities. Lao-Tzu founded Taoism, which is defined by the Merriam-Webster as “a philosophy that teaches conformity to the Tao by unassertive action and simplicity.” Lao Tzu believed people should be free and politicians should only intervene when it was necessary. He states,” keeping people unaware that they are being governed, the leader allows the people to achieve good things for themselves.” On the contrary, Machiavelli’s leader is a prince. He thinks that people must be strongly governed. Though, he also believes in having greatness and is only worried about winning the war and being focused on the war. He is much less worried about his people than the way of Lao-Tzu government. …show more content…
The movie begins as a boy named Daniel moves to this new town in California where he is sadly bullied by a guy named Johnny that goes to the same school as him. It happened multiple times and Daniel’s new neighbor noticed Daniel getting bullied; his name was Miyagi. Miyagi was a karate master and he decides he is going to teach Daniel karate so he could stand up for himself. He teaches him on the Lao-Tzu basis, meaning he would only defend himself instead of fighting back at the boys as revenge. He wanted to show Daniel how to use his karate for good and not