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Hi, Robin.

Hi, Bob.

How are you?

Good, good.

Good.

Let me introduce us.

I'm Robert Wright.

This is a right show available on both streaming video and audio podcast. You are Robin Wong. That's W-A-N-G.

You're the Robert H. Taylor Professor in Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

You're the author of a book published by Cambridge University Press called Yinyong. Now,

Americans are probably accustomed to pronouncing that pair of syllables,

Yin Yang.

That's the way it's known here,

but I learned from you as the correct pronunciation is Yang.

Yes.

Y-A-N-G.

The subtitle that book is the way of heaven and earth in Chinese thought and culture. Yes. Y-A-N-G. The subtitle that book is The Way of Heaven and Earth in Chinese Thought and Culture.

You also contributed a chapter to this book that our viewers and listeners may be aware of,

because we have delved into it previously, but it's called How to Live a Good Life,

something we're all interested in, edited by Massimo Piliuchi, Sky Clear, and Dan Kaufman.

You wrote the chapter on Taoism, which is, of course, a Chinese philosophical tradition, and, of course, the idea of Yen and Yang also figures in

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