Tag: consistency
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Beware of Lao-Tzu’s paradoxes
I wish I could rate Lao-Tzu as a perfect philosopher, but we have centuries of experience which shows mixed results. I will not contest the great achievements of the ancient Taoists, but I cannot close my eyes to their mistakes. Newcomers to Taoism should be made aware of those errors and how to amend them.…
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Michel de Montaigne and intellectual curiosity
When people nowadays speak about curiosity, they usually mean the open, random, wide-range interest in a multiplicity of subjects. They mean the curiosity of children exploring their environment in a disorderly, superficial, inconsistent manner. Renaissance authors such as Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) employed a different definition of curiosity. They carried out research in a multiplicity…
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