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Episode 12: Chuang Tzu’s Taoism: What Is Wisdom?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Name That Can Be Expressed Is Not the Eternal Tao

Dina: This is as difficult a text as anything i've ever read anywhere, by anybody. I mean, even to understand nev you, never mind to decide whether i like it or not, whether it's right or wrong. It's just drenched in metaphysics. And so there's nothing really psychological about these texts. So the best we can do is, as he says a few times, let it be, stop meddling with nature. Dina: The only way to take these kinds of terms that they use here is really nically literally, right at their word.

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