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That = because? Or that = which (refers to the whole sentence before it)?

 
 
Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 11:04 pm
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Chapter2
It is because every one under Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty,that the idea of ugliness exists.
And equally if every one recognized virtue as virtue, this would merely create fresh conceptions of wickedness.
For truly 'Being and Not-being grow out of one another;
Difficult and easy complete one another.
Long and short test one another;
High and low determine one another.
Pitch and mode give harmony to one another.
Front and back give sequence to one another'.
Therefore[1] the Sage relies on actionless activity,
Carries on wordless teaching,
But the myriad creatures are worked upon by him; he does not disown them.
He rears them, but does not lay claim to them,
Controls them, but does not lean upon them,
Achieves his aim, but does not call attention[2] to what he does;
And for the very reason that he does not call attention to what he does
He is not ejected from fruition of what he has done.
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Reply Wed 4 May, 2011 11:29 pm
@oristarA,
...to the clause before it.
oristarA
 
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Reply Thu 5 May, 2011 12:58 am
@fresco,
fresco wrote:

...to the clause before it.


Thanks.

that the idea of ugliness exists = from which the idea of ugliness comes to being?
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Reply Thu 5 May, 2011 05:29 am
Since we know beauty, we can recognize the idea of ugliness.
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Reply Thu 5 May, 2011 10:45 am
@oristarA,
It is because every person that has ever existed recognizes beauty as beauty that the competing idea, the idea of ugliness exists.
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