Ep. 312: The Dao De Jing on Virtue (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Concluding our discussion of the Daodejing with guest Theo Brooks. We cover some more ambiguous cosmological passages and return to political philosophy.
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| 0:30.0 | Hey, this is the Partially Examine Life Episode 312 Part 2. |
| 0:38.4 | Still going on the day of the day, Jing, with our friend Theo. |
| 0:41.7 | Theo, you mentioned number 40. We want to spend more time in the second half of the book |
| 0:45.7 | in the day section. 40 is a nice short one. |
| 0:49.2 | Somebody want to read their version? |
| 0:52.4 | Not a returning is how waymaking moves. |
| 0:56.9 | And weakening is how it functions. The events of the world arise from the |
| 1:00.8 | determinate and the determinate arises from the indeterminate. |
| 1:05.1 | Pretty straightforward. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, so the indeterminate is woo again, the knot, and then the determinate is you. |
| 1:14.1 | So I guess this is just revisiting these concepts that we dealt with at some point |
| 1:19.4 | in the previous whole discussion. |
| 1:21.6 | The picture here seems to be of a cycle now, right? |
| 1:24.9 | Where determinate and indeterminate are arising from each other, |
| 1:27.9 | but it seems like it would have to be circular. |
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