PHIL-202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Truism, Taoism, Pyrrhonism
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Yin and yang are also mutually dependent; cannot have one without the other, the cycle. Chuang tzu will aim to do more than be critical about confucianism: he wants to undermine (cid:862)be(cid:272)ause the(cid:396)e is, the(cid:396)e is (cid:374)ot(cid:863): to (cid:271)e atta(cid:272)hed to life is to lose sight of the mutual dependence. The idea of dependence is a yin trait: a submission. The shadow depends upon the person: everything depends on something else, so how am i to. Title reflects natures ability to naturally arrange itself; humans tend to interfere with impositions of rule and structure. Equanitmity: a composure of calmness and tranquility is valuable. Title conveys both the natural and human value of daoism, lack of interference, to be calm. [20]: the shadow said to the outline: the scales depend on the snake know of one thing without knowledge of the other between the two, creating a natural balance between the two.
