RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Laozi, Taoism, Martin Heidegger
17 Mar 2016
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The cosmic essence dynamic property of changing (change of the two opposites) But somehow the dao is not something that goes beyond every day life , but embodies itself in all the beings. Dao is nameless, eternally changing whereas the name is static and momentary. Absolute dao and name / speech is relative. We can use it, speak it, write it but the name is silent. You cant take the river, if you use a barrel you only get water. Through name, we grasp and understand what exists or presents, however we could not say what is non existing and absent. Why there is something not nothing? martin heidegger. Life and death the sword of damocles. The non-existing side of the dao does not vanish but remains absent invisible which lingers around and will reappear. If we can be aware of both the being and the nothing, we can comprehend the.
