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Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Ames's Anti-Confusion

Mark O'Mara: The book of change is about the interpenetration of opposites. He says that whenever you have one thing, like a confusion, you want to make distinctions and say this is the good, that's the bad. But when there's ran, in other words, virtue in quotes, then there's no real virtue because there's just this nominalist nodding respectfully to virtue, but not actually feeling it with your heart," he writes. "Whenever there's day, there must be night"

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