
Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is the Twang to a Collection of Sayings?
It's only 135 pages with the translate excluding the introduction. So with the commentary, but it felt like 300 pages, 80 pages or something to get through that. He quoted Whitehead a lot. I felt like, which is why it was awesome. We don't have to concentrate on the commentary,. The original Chinese characters are so ambiguous. Again, no tenses, no singular versus plural and multiple source versions of the text that have differences between them.
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