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is a concept which arises in the history of the West that mask certain continuities, interrelationships, and power relationships. Some examples include reason/emotion, mind/body, spirit/nature, man/woman... and center/periphery, inner/outer, subject/object.).

One example of thought forms that need revolutionary work are oppositions such as reason/emotion, mind/body, spirit/nature, man/woman... and center/periphery, inner/outer, subject/object. Such oppositions, developed in the history of the West, mask continuities and interrelationships... and the oppositions function in power relationships as destructive and hierarchal (reason over emotion, mind over the body, etc.). (net)

is at root, simply and solely this, that each of the two sides is solely through the other, and what each thus is it immediately no longer is, since it is its other.

Consequently, these moments are not divided into two independent extremes offering each other only an opposite extreme: their essence rather consist simply and solely in this, that each is solely through the other, and what each thus is it immediately no longer is, since it is the other. (hegel 'phenomenology' : 86)

is illusory. Vice has nothing in common with virtue. Freedom has nothing to do with slavery.

What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery beware of enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For Vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery. (epictetus 'sayings' 22)

is not disjoined, but polar. The opposing pair does not confront each other from afar, rather they originate in a common center.

The principle to remember is that all dualities and opposites are not disjoined but polar. They do not confront each other from afar... they originate in a common center. (Michael Michalko)

is simply an imprecise way of seeing degrees and transitions, causing much unnecessary pain, arrogance, estrangement, and frigidity.

Habit of seeing opposites. The general imprecise way of observing sees everywhere in nature opposites (as, e.g., 'warm and cold') where they are, not opposites, but differences of degree. This bad habit has led us into wanting to comprehend and analyze the inner world, too, the spiritual-moral world, in terms of such opposites. An unspeakable amount of pain, arrogance, harshness, estrangement, frigidity has entered into human feelings because we think we see opposites instead of transitions. (nietzsche 'the wanderer and his shadow' $67 : pdf)

is simply an imprecise way of seeing degrees. There are transitions rather than opposites.

is what becomes of every idea when extended into infinity.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

is held together by desire. Everything desires not like but that which is most unlike: The dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, bitter/sweet, sharp the blunt.

for that everything desires not like but that which is most unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things... for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives nothing from like. And I thought that he who said this was a charming man, and that he spoke well. What do the rest of you say' (plato lysis .pdf)

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