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🗓️ 3 June 2024
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We're concluding our treatment of the Daoist sage, focusing on the relation between metaphysics and ethics. Is a "wu wei" (non-action) philosophy compatible with fighting for justice? Does it even necessitate kindness?
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0:00.0 | Hey you're listening to the Parsi exam in Life episode 342 part 2 finishing up our treatment of the Schwang T. |
0:14.9 | We've been contemplating this. |
0:16.9 | It's not metaphysical monism because he's not saying all is literally one. |
0:21.4 | No, there are different things. It's just that the difference between them |
0:24.4 | don't really matter. The interpenetration of opposites, everything implies everything else. |
0:30.3 | Nothing can really be considered in isolation because it has as sort of a |
0:34.0 | Pronumbra just to define it you're defining it in terms of its contrast with all the |
0:38.8 | other stuff and so even a horse carries around non-horseness with it. |
0:43.6 | Theo, you wanted to take this a little further? |
0:46.4 | Well, I think this paragraph will either, maybe help, |
0:49.1 | maybe hinder, we'll see. |
0:50.7 | This is on page 17. |
0:52.8 | For courses have never had any sealed boundaries between them |
0:56.2 | and words have never had any constant range. |
0:59.3 | It is by establishing definitions of what is this, what is right that boundaries are made. |
1:05.0 | Let me explain what I mean by boundaries. |
1:07.0 | They're right and left. |
1:09.0 | Then there are roles and duties. |
1:11.0 | Then there are divisions and disputes, then there are competitions and struggles, and this is the kind of thing they call the eight virtues, said sarcastically. |
1:21.0 | As for the sage, he may admit that something exists beyond the six limits of the |
1:26.8 | known world, but he does not make any further assessments about it. As for what is |
1:31.8 | within the world, he may assess it but will not express his own |
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