When many people have a hard time admitting something can do *any* harm, there's almost always a group who can't admit that the thing can do *any* good. Both are fixated on the thing being overall-good-valence or overall-bad-valence.
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a guy called Phil Stevens argues that the distinction between good & bad magic is a modern invention which sounds batshit to me
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Charles Taylor argues the opposite (making “magic” one single thing, to be purged, was the weird modern innovation that secularized us)
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oh my gosh it's hilariously similar to what Taylor calls fullness
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What’s stadial sense?
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oh taylor uses it as the adjective form of “stages” like how some people have the idea that there are stages in history, axial age etc.
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interesting in that Taylor's early work is all Hegel all the time
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indifference -> difference -> synthesis as next order of difference
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Pure_Ones … Daodejing says "The Tao (Wuji, monism) produced One (Taiji, the yin-yang symbol, 'dialectical monism'); One produced Two (yin and yang, dualism); Two produced Three (???); Three produced the Ten Thousand Things." Much later they deified the concepts.
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