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                                The Limits of Language: How Words Kill Truth in Laozi and Nietzsche (Myke Ian A. Hechanova) Laozi’s statement, “The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao” (1988), and Nietzsche’s phrase, “God is dead” (1974), both point to the idea that human language limits and distorts truth. They come from different traditions—Daoism in the East and Western philosophy in the West—but both suggest that trying to define something too much can actually destroy its true meaning. For Laozi, the Dao is the natural way of life, something vast and beyond human understanding. But the moment we try to put it into words, we shrink it into something smaller than it really is. Words create divisions and categories that don’t exist in nature. For example, when we say something is “good” or “bad,” we forget that everything in life is connected and always changing. Laozi warns that w...

                      On Being and Dao: Foundations of Metaphysics in Western and Eastern Thought The Western idea of Being and the Eastern concept of Dao both try to explain the nature of existence, but they approach it in very different ways. In Western philosophy, especially in thinkers like Plato and Heidegger, Being is often seen as something fundamental and unchanging—the essence of what things truly are beyond what we see. Philosophers have spent centuries trying to define and analyze Being, treating it as a deep truth that can be understood through reason and logical thinking. In contrast, the Eastern concept of Dao , especially in Daoism, doesn’t focus on defining existence in rigid terms. Instead, Dao is seen as a natural, ever-changing flow that shapes everything in the universe. Rather than trying to grasp it through logic, Daoists believe the best way to understand Dao is to live in harmony with it, acceptin...