We're going to be doing a live show in New York City on April 15th at 7pm,

discussing Dostoevsky's The Brothers Caramazov. You can purchase tickets either to come in person

or for our live stream at PartialExamineLife.com slash live.

You're listening to the Partial Examine Life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point

set on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it. Our question for episode 311

is something like, what is the wisest way to understand and act in the world?

And we read the Dow the Jing, traditionally attributed to Lao Zi somewhere between 406100 BCE.

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This is Mark Lintonmeyer using an uncard block as my teddy bear in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin emptying his heart mind and filling his stomach in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Aulone, feeling like everything's going to be woo-way in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey just wanting to get five or six miles down the road in Madison, Wisconsin.

And this is Theodore Brooks, glunting the shardness, untangling the knots, and softening the glare,

merging with the dust in broken illustrator.

Welcome Theo. Welcome. I put out a call on Facebook.

Who among our listeners has spent a lot of time with this?

And you had strong opinions, say about our translation that we picked, which I should say is by Roger T. Ames.

It is the end hole. Yes, and David L. Hall.

I'm sure we'll just refer to Ames throughout here just for simplicity's sake.

Called Dow the Jing making this life significant, a philosophical translation.

And he doesn't even put Lao Zi on it because they're like, that wasn't a real person.

It just means old master. It probably was more than one person.

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