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Cartoon in the style of a Chinese ink-wash landscape: misty mountains, an orange sun, birds, huts on an island and bamboo, with Plato in a white chiton and white beard poling a covered boat across the water.

Tao of Plato

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“Govern a large country,” says the sixtieth verse of the Tao Te Ching, “as you would cook a small fish.” A small fish falls apart if it’s poked and turned too often. One way to read the line is as […]

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