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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Determinacy and Indeterminacy Give Rise to Ugliness

When you fix something as one determinant property like beautiful, there is already ugliness. So Ames has a determinacy and indeterminacy give rise to each other. When everyone in the world knows the beautiful is beautiful, ugliness comes into being. The whole world recognizes the good as the good yet this is only the bad. They've made they've raised something as this is goodness, this is virtue, this is beauty and it's a bullshit distinction.

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