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What a disservice. Hogan's writing is, let's say, informal, but it's not really meaningfully lighter on "woo" except in cases where it just refuses to address t
by morelisp 3y ago
What a disservice. Hogan's writing is, let's say, informal, but it's not really meaningfully lighter on "woo" except in cases where it just refuses to address the text.
For someone looking to connect to Western metaphysical traditions I'd recommend rather the Ames & Hall translation; of chapter 42 it says:
Way-making (dao) gives rise to continuity,
Continuity gives rise to difference,
Difference gives rise to plurality,
And plurality gives rise to the manifold everything that is happening
- bravura 3y agoI don't know the DDC very well, but this is a beautiful translation. The pattern of 3 comes up often. For example, a "classical" approach to something puts the flag in the ground. A reactionary "modern" approach takes a radical differentiating tack to the classical way. And a "postmodern" tries to reconcile what each camp got right broadly, while acknowledging that no one-size-fits-all objective approach exists.