Philosophy, literally from the Greek, "the love of Wisdom" is your journey to self-knowledge..through speculation on the world, interaction with your fellow human beings in dialog; and making independent judgments on life, love, and family. As Socrates says in Plato's dialogue Apology, "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
A Brief History of Pi
A fascinating video if you are interested in this unending sequence of digits representing the ratio of the diameter to the circumstance of a circle.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Magnificent View of our tiny place in the Vast Universe
Wikicommons Picture of the Year 2016
Laser Toward the Milky Ways Centre
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
The German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, in his Critique of Judgment, a treatise on the Beautiful and the Sublime said in that there are two visions that present Sublime beauty for human beings, first, the starry heavens above, second, the moral law within.
Most of us can feel sublimity contemplating this image, because it conveys our tiny, insignificant place in the vast creation of the universe, but Kant felt the same awe and beauty when he thought about the ethical law planted within human nature, because it lead us to our final happiness as human persons.
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