Strange wrote:human beings are predictable because the vast majority have to think
in terms of "either/or".
Bao wrote:Strange wrote:human beings are predictable because the vast majority have to think
in terms of "either/or".
I believe that this is very much a Western thinking. In the East, people think more in terms as that opposites exists together at the same time. Therefore, people here have an idea about internal arts that is different from how chinese perceive the same idea and term. Some styles focus more on neigong others more on waigong. The outcome will be different depending on how you practice, what exercises you spend most of your time on.
Strange wrote:
Ian C. Kuzushi wrote: I don't agree that it's a Western thing. From Aristotle to Hegel to Marx and beyond, various dialectics have been proposed as a way to understand what is illustrated in the taiji tu and how such an epistemology might be applied to various phenomena.
Bao wrote:Ian C. Kuzushi wrote: I don't agree that it's a Western thing. From Aristotle to Hegel to Marx and beyond, various dialectics have been proposed as a way to understand what is illustrated in the taiji tu and how such an epistemology might be applied to various phenomena.
I only referred to modern, general understanding of common people, not to philosophers.
Ian C. Kuzushi wrote:Bao wrote:Ian C. Kuzushi wrote: I don't agree that it's a Western thing. From Aristotle to Hegel to Marx and beyond, various dialectics have been proposed as a way to understand what is illustrated in the taiji tu and how such an epistemology might be applied to various phenomena.
I only referred to modern, general understanding of common people, not to philosophers.
While such generalizations might be convenient for you in this moment, it seems transparently vacuous. We are on a IMA board. I imagine most people here read philosophy of one sort or another. I also don't know many people other than the specific group mentioned who see things in black and white. You tried to generalize Westerners, and now have had to back into a corner of "modern, common" people. Well, as I said, "...and beyond." It's not like these ideas died. They are alive and quite well. It's just not a helpful way to categorize people, and certainly not accurate.
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