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Yin Yang Symbol Explanation
The yin yang symbol is widely known around the world, yet the interpretation that many give to it is far too simplistic.
As everyone knows, there’s a black section with a little white in the middle, and a white section with a little black in the middle, all encompassed within a circle.
As most people also probably know, the black represents ‘evil’ and the white represents ‘good,’ so there’s a little bit of good within evil and there’s a little bit of evil within good.
But here’s what most people don’t know. the fact that these intertwining colours are contained within a circle is important for my interpretation.
The circle represents a ‘container’ for these forces of good and evil, but the importance of the circle is that if you start at a certain point and go around, you arrive back at your starting position after going around, and you can keep doing this ad infinitum.
This is crucial to realize that this explains the endless cycle from good to evil and evil to good and back again. The circle, also, since it encloses, shows that ‘good’ and ‘evil’ while seemingly real phenomenon within the realm of social relations, doesn’t ultimately exist as immutable things. in other words, objective morality does not exist.
This is not to say that you should act with indifference to others and do what you want without caring about your impact on the world, but it’s just revealing the relativity of certain worldviews that claim immutability of conceptual reality.
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Yin Yang Symbol Explanation
