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Yin and Yang as Exclusive Oppositions?
Right : Left
Mind : Body
either : or
black : white
with us : against us
good : evil
virtue : sin
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| The Birth of Venus by Bouguereau. 1879 |
The Statue of David, completed by Michelangelo in 1504, is one of the most renowned works of the Renaissance. |
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Bouguereau's L'Innocence: Both young children and lamb are symbols of innocence. |
Freddy Krueger |
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Unlike Western notions of exclusive binaries, of mutually exclusive duality, of taking sides, "my way or the highway," each side not reducible to other (Rene Descartes),
Taoism offers something altogether different. Each necessary for the other.