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tottering Aristotle: the web spinners
Great examples of the illustration of the new age of science. Francis Bacon’s The Great Instauration followed a century of immense activity in the sciences, after discoveries in astronomy by Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler and galileo; after Gilbert’s experiments with … Continue reading
bacon: instauratio magna
” for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be able to do.” Francis bacon’s gist for condensation is so remarkable that it is easy , almost four centuries later, in a … Continue reading
new atlantis: caves of custom
If one now asks why science arose as it did, it was Francis bacon which spread its doctrines. It is evident that the geographical dicoveries of his time, and the circumnavigation of the earth, had promoted an independent examination of … Continue reading
imagine if you can: yes!
John Lennon’s message was fairly straightforward: don’t swallow wholesale what you’ve been told. Affirm your independence or it will be taken from you. Assert your individuality. Don’t let yourself be imprisoned by rules and regulations devised by others. All easier … Continue reading
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poussin: willing into the trap of fantasy
In short, Poussin’s reason got him trapped in fantasy. His striving for legibility backfired: the pious Madame du Housset , who owned the Vergilian Shepherds of Arcady, had placed it in her chapel thinking it was an altarpiece. …. Poussin … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew butterfield, Arthur Schopenhauer, dr. steven adams, Fernando Pessoa, Joshua Reynolds, lucian greek writer, Martin Buber, michel passart, natalis comes, Nicolas Poussin, Rene Descartes, Spinoza, thomas jefferson monticello
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born to be wild
The wild boy of Aveyron inspired the philosophers of the Enlightenment to seek answers to the question, what is the nature of man? To do so, they looked to a deaf mute child found running wild in the forest. In … Continue reading
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the ghost in the machine
Immortality through science? Can our ethical and emotional intelligence keep up with technology? Its a highly ambiguous issue. We seem to be on the cusp of a major, and final break from the industrial age; a potential for vastly increased … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Turing, B.F. Skinner, Bill gates, Charles Darwin, cyborgs, Dr. Brandt Eugenics, eugenics, gilbert ryle, hugh loebner, kevin warwick, Lady Gaga, Lev Grossman, raymond kurzweil, Rene Descartes, robotic technology, the singularity, transhumanism, transhumanist clubs, W.B. Yeats
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ZONE OF THEIR OWN : HOBGOBLINS WITH SWORDS
“At the very beginning of the long dialogue between thinkers that makes up western political theory there is Plato’s Republic, and at the very beginning of the Republic there is this strange and interesting exchange. Socrates asks an old man, … Continue reading
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