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“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” - Lao Tzu
Daoist Political Theory Links
Governing Through the Dao: A Non-Anarchistic Interpretation of the Laozi:
https://sci-hub.tw/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11712-010-9176-z"Given the origins of anarchism, it is important to recognize that claiming the political philosophy of the Laozias a form of anarchism requires placing a Chinese world-view into a Western framework that postdates it by over two thousand years and is understood vis-à-vis a particular Western concept (i.e., the modern state). This alone should raise initial skepticism about the anarchist conclusion regarding the Laozi. Beyond Daoism’s historical past, there are three theoretical reasons for skepticism: (1) the fact that the Laozi is clearly a political treatise addressed to the ruler and providing him with a philosophy of governance; (2) the Chinese conception of personhood, which creates aproblem for traditional anarchist arguments that utilize a notion of the atomistic individual;and, (3) the fact that the skepticism of the Laozi is aimed at a different target than that of anarchism."
"Common to both individualist and social anarchists alike, however, is a perceived tension between individual liberty and the collective will. In Daoism and in Chinese political thought generally, this tension does not exist”(Ames 1983: 32). This lack of tension results from the Daoist, and more generally Chinese, conception of the person. Rather than conceiving the self as autonomous and discrete, Daoists understand the self as interdependent and contextualized."
The General Principle Of Lao Zi's Political Philosophy: The Concept of "Inaction" (Wuwei): https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2753/CSP1097-146726010213The Journal of Daoist Studies: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/711
The rise of the Tao: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/magazine/07religion-t.html
China's Apolitical Political School of Thought: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/chinas-apolitical-political-school-thought-12823 -
From the Tao Te Ching, translated by Red Pine. Red Pine: Dancing With Words: https://kyotojournal.org/fiction-poetry/dancing-with-words/
The Problem of Translation: https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/02/the-tao-te-ching-addendum.html #Mindful #Philosophy
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"What Would the Father of Cybernetics Think About A.I. Today? Looking back on Norbert Wiener’s seminal 1950 book, The Human Use of Human Beings": https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/norbert-wiener-cybernetics-human-use-artificial-intelligence.html
"The human use of human beings: Interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and all that in biophysics and beyond": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030146221730162X #HCI #Technology #Philosophy #ALife
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Daoist Art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoist_art
Daoist Robe, 17th Century: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/53609
"This dazzling garment would have been worn by Daoist priests during ceremonies. The back of the robe, which is displayed here, depicts five dragons hovering above a primordial landscape of stylized mountains rising from a frothy sea."
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Quote by Erich Fromm from "The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology"
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A Brief History of China - talk by Kristofer Schipper 鼎清 施舟人:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristofer_SchipperReligion is Nowhere and Everywhere
Path to Daoist Studies
On Li
Inclusivity and Exclusivity
Check as well Kristofer Schipper's worthwile Speech at Peking University: "Chinese History and its Global Significance": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjse34pV2EE&list=UU8wNPYihHdoRZzlOhd6noTA&index=15
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Nāgārjuna’s Four valued logic:
- Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjuna https://www.iep.utm.edu/nagarjun/
- Book: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~ac117/papers/Nagarjuna.pdf
- Book: http://www.thelogician.net/BUDDHIST-ILLOGIC/Cover-page.htm
- Post: https://aeon.co/essays/the-logic-of-buddhist-philosophy-goes-beyond-simple-truth
- Paper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1400052?seq=1
- Podcast: https://historyofphilosophy.net/nagarjunatetralemma
- Presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/jimarlow/four-valued-logic-for-business-and-
- Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjuna https://www.iep.utm.edu/nagarjun/
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I'm deeply in love with the comic works of Tsai Chih Chung. Highly recommended reading - all of them: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R54CW3L More about the artist: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2016-07/27/content_26235313.htm https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?post=26360&unit=20,29,29,35,45&unitname=Taiwan-Review&postname=A-Thinking-Artist #Mindful #Philosophy #Art
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Thoughts on physicist Mario Livio talking about "Why Is There Anything At All?":
#Comment: So many fancy words used to essentially just say "we don't know - at all". Particularly contemporary western scientists with their "knowledge fetishism" seem to have a very hard time acknowledging, that there are a great many questions which are fundamentally "unknowable" (situated right at the base of the "pyramid of knowledge/science", threatening to collapse the entire game built upon them). One would think, things like Gödel's "incompleteness theorem", Asimov's "The Last Question" or countless Zen Buddhist texts would have made the case rather clear by now, but apparently not. Scientist pretense of knowledge is especially comedic, such as when they tell us what happened a femtosecond after big bang or what happens inside the event horizon. They state their wild speculations as facts while they clearly just confuse their models and equations with reality. In praxis, contemporary scientsist resorts to the very same tricks the christian church used for millennia: First make up fictive ghost stories that sounds important but way too complex for anyone to understand. Then convince the public that they are the only ones that can make sense of this and use this to grab respect, authority and power. This comic summarizes this silly game nicely: https://samim.io/p/2019-10-30-proposal-for-a-monument-to-logical-fallacies-by-san/
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"The world is full of objects more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more." - Douglas Huebler
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World Peace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_peace
The World's Religious Leaders Call On Everyone To Make Friends Across Religions
https://sputniknews.com/us/201904051073840850-trump-usa-china-russia-invest-peace/
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that the United States, Russia and China should stop spending on weapons and invest toward long-term peace.
"Between Russia, China and us, we're all making hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons, including nuclear, which is ridiculous," Trump said on Thursday. "I think it's much better if we all got together and didn't make these weapons… those three countries I think can come together and stop the spending and spend on things that are more productive toward long term peace."
Chinese Vice Premiere Liu He, who was present at the White House, said he agreed with Trump's idea. -
Shōjin Ryōri Cooking is rooted in the concept that the earth and body are inseparable. It is only through attaining a perfect symbiosis with the land that we can truly reap the benefits of the earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cuisine
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"Evald Ilyenkov’s cosmology: the point of madness of dialectical materialism" - by Slavoj žižek: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/evald-ilyenkovs-cosmology-the-point-of-madness-of-dialectical-materialism/ 99% Intellectual Masturbation, these people should go do some yoga, qi-gong, walk with a dog or fuck instead.
Contingency and Necessity in Evald Ilyenkov’s Communist Cosmology: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/88/174178/contingency-and-necessity-in-evald-ilyenkov-s-communist-cosmology/
Soviet astronauts at a TV studio in 1963 (from left to right): Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Valery Bykovsky, Andrian Nikolayev, and Gherman Titov. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Contingency and Necessity in Evald Ilyenkov’s Communist Cosmology | Alexei Penzin
