
Episode 12: Chuang Tzu’s Taoism: What Is Wisdom?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is That Post Modernism?
Post moderns would say that the opposites require each other, and that you can't have one without the other. The whole structure that's built around their opposition falls apart. And i think what they're trying to is not so much that we need to deconstruct the idea of beauty, because its really requires the idea of ugliness. It's more like saying your concept of beauty as a human being is completely irrelevant to a leech or a monkey. So in some ways, it's a simple statement of relativism,. which is a direct response to the on ons that are so concerned of correctness in all sorts of things... But if he definitely has the right reason to
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