I think in this chapter, the idea of opposites is setting up the rest of this book, perhaps to just put us as the readers on unstable ground. Obviously, this is a tool that people have used from a religious perspective, from a self improvement perspective, to be self evaluating. So when you look at the idea of beauty being a masquerade, or rather when it is a masquerade, it is actually ugliness or goodness, if it is not sincere, is not truly goodness
Deborah Pardes
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When you taste someone's dish and you're like, wow, you're super influenced by French cooking, or you're super influenced by this Indonesian spice you use changes the whole palate. And I think with words and with philosophy and with reading, we hope that what we read enters into our body and our minds and changes our behavior. And I think that's really what you're getting at
It's you can't have one without the other. It's the law of polarity. It's the law that runs everything that we know. And so I definitely appreciate the philosophical insights and understandings. And, yeah, thanks for your open up space to have discussions around these pretty novel concepts