Good morning philosophers,
We’ve really enjoyed piecing together the story of duality and all it has to say about the way we relate to the world and to one another.
We’ve seen the world through the eyes of Taoism, which portrays all of us as a part of the whole, emanating holistically from within nature itself. We’ve passed over Plato and witnessed how the earliest thinkers in the western disciplines approached the problem of material and thought. And yesterday we saw how those ideas along with hundreds of others, held on through hundreds of years of oppression and came out the other side interesting hybrids of their ancestors.
Each of these philosophies was limited in a sense because it was based upon intuition, thought, and spiritual observation. With that said, more often than not these experiences produced a worldview that was completely in line with what we are observing today in science, but there was no way to verify and clarify those hypotheses.
In many respects, one should be…
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