On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 11:28:55 -0700, Laurel and Rick wrote: "It's always seemed to me that the rough equivalent of the Tao in "western thought was the ancient Greek notion of the Logos, "that "which steers all things through all things"(Democritus).
Laurel, thank you. Interesting to go back to the old greeks. They defined the basic understanding of SPACE, time, matter, thinking, ... in a way, the occidental technological-industrial societies could build upon since. They were the paradigma-creators for occidental thinking. So looking back to these is always a good idea in times of paradigma changes. I think, the dark Heracleithos was very close to Lao Tse and the idea of processes beeing more essential than things, when he spoke, that "we cannot enter the same river twice" and that "contradiction is the father of everything" (Only a later militaristic translation made erroneousely "The War is the Father of Everything' of it). Bernhard Bernhard * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
