The ineffable Tao
The Tao finds worth in worthlessness, use in uselessness, beauty in ugliness.. The Tao was a source of yin and yang, the reconciliation of opposites.
This is Who made our minds? my Thursday essay probing the greatest, cruellest and most beautiful minds of the past 5,000 years, inspired by my book, The Soul: A History of the Human Mind (Penguin 2024). Coming up: Ecstasy in the Nunneries, Homer’s Psyche and The (French) Revolutionary Conscience.
LAOZI (born c. 571 BCE), also known as Lao Tzu, was a Chin…
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