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Turning of the Wheel:

The interplay of the Unique and Universal

A Digital Collection of Events from the Humanities Colloquium Series, Turning of the Wheel,
University of Idaho | Moscow, Idaho | 2011-2012

Yin and Yang as Exclusive Oppositions?

Right : Left

Mind : Body

either : or

black : white

with us : against us

good : evil

virtue : sin

The Birth of Venus by Bouguereau. 1879

The Statue of David, completed by Michelangelo in 1504, is one of the most renowned works of the Renaissance.

Bouguereau's L'Innocence: Both young children and lamb are symbols of innocence.

Freddy Krueger
Sarah Palin Barack Obama

Unlike Western notions of exclusive, oppositional binaries - of taking sides, each side not reducible to other (Rene Descartes) - Taoism offers something altogether different. Continue . . .

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