5 weeks ago / 4 visits

Its conceivable that Darwin’s values, ironically, drew a certain strength from his pondering of natural selection. Think of it: zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical and all logically incompatible with one anoth…

2 months ago / 7 visits

William James, who, more than a century ago, in his book ‘Varieties of Religious Experience’ www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/621/pg621.t xt tried to find a framework that would encompass all the forms of experience, Eastern and Western, that we call religious. James said that, in the broadest sense, re…

2 months ago / 8 visits

‘Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary’ defines a moment of truth as “a moment of crisis on whose outcome much or everything depends.”

2 months ago / 7 visits

“Between what a man calls me and when he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw.” ~ William James (AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST)

2 months ago / 9 visits

“A psychological analysis of the faculty of language shows, that even the smallest proficiency in its might require more brain power than the greatest proficiency in any other direction” ~ Chauncey Wright plato.stanford.edu/entries/wright

3 months ago / 13 visits

Beware of the Pigeon League’. The warning came from Galileo’s closest friend in the city, the artist Lodovico Cardi (known as Cigoli) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigoli w;ho was currently working on a remarkable fresco on the dome of Santa Maria Maggiore. It depicted the Madonna standing on the moon -- th…

4 months ago / 9 visits

’Harmony’ was, for Kepler, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler the key to the understanding of ‘life, the universe and everything.’ In 1611, before the invention of the microscope he wrote a paper about snowflakes. Transferring his attention from the vastness of space to the minutiae of frozen wat…

4 months ago / 9 visits

Still later, Kant tried to fix the argument by introducing language first used by Fichte plato.stanford.edu/entries/johann-fichte The subject constitutes itself as a subject. Kant now argues that we can be aware of being moved only insofar as we move ourselves, and, more importantly, that we are awa…

4 months ago / 10 visits

. . .(1) The “beautiful is what pleases in the mere estimate formed of it (consequently not by the intervention of any feeling of sense in accordance with a concept of the understanding.) From this it follows immediately that it must please from all interest.” (2) The “sublime is what pleases immed…

4 months ago / 12 visits

. . . Kant believed that it is in our fortieth year that we finally acquire a character No one who in his way of thinking is conscious of having character can have such character by nature. Rather, it must always be acquired. We may also assume that the foundation of this character and its beginning…

4 months ago / 13 visits

So even before the microscope had been put to serious use, the telescope created vertiginous sense of the infinite vastness of the universe and the insignificance of human beings when viewed, in the mind’s eye, from outer space. In the Lucretian universe the gods are indifferent to human beings, and…

5 months ago / 13 visits

"Do not suppose that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively imaginative person, and could believe in the Arabian Nights as easily as in Encyclopedia!" ~ Faraday.

5 months ago / 14 visits

In ‘Civilization and Its discontents’ www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/ 2015/10/FreudS-CIVILIZATION-AND-ITS-DISC ONTENTS-text-final.pdf Sigmund Freud wrote, “One can try to recreate the world, to build up in its stead another world in which its most unbearable features are eliminated and repl…

6 months ago / 22 visits

As a historical science, evolution is confirmed by the fact that so many independent lines of evidence converge to its single conclusion. Independent sets of data from geology, paleontology, botany, zoology, herpetology, entomology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, genetics and popu…

7 months ago / 19 visits