I was talking to a woman on the phone, complaining about how things weren’t fair, they weren’t right. I told her that I knew of a fellow who scored low on his ACT, didn’t receive higher education, didn’t do much of anything that I could discern, yet he has a high paying job, a car,ContinueContinue reading “Hard Work”
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Absurdity
Plato said that the unexamined life is not worth living. He thought that we need to find out wha constituted the good life. His god, the Demiurge, had crafted the world with purpose. Plato’s student Aristotle continued the examination of the good life. He wrote on what made a person virtuous. Aristotle thought that toContinueContinue reading “Absurdity”
Reason & Emotions: Trump’s America
The ancient Greeks gave us some good ideas, two among them being the concepts of politics and ethics. With the idea of politics comes the idea that humans can look at the possible ways of living together and choose that which is best. With ethics, we examine what makes up a good life and howContinueContinue reading “Reason & Emotions: Trump’s America”
Essentialism
For as long as people have had the cognizance to ask anything, they have asked themselves and each other, “What’s the meaning of life?” If we’re here, we had ought to have some purpose. We should have a telos. People are always looking for meaning in things, so it makes sense that they would alsoContinueContinue reading “Essentialism”
Existential Angst
It seems that everybody is missing out on something. And I, too, feel that I am missing out on something. Other people can talk about how they are happy with their lives, but I think that they don’t know what they are missing out on. I know that I am missing out on something, thoughContinueContinue reading “Existential Angst”
New Case Manager
Some people are ridiculously unqualified for their jobs, as is the situation with my new case manager. I had talked with him on the phone yesterday, and I had to hang up on him, because he rambled on and on about his own pathetic life, which is not the sort of thing that I wantContinueContinue reading “New Case Manager”
Copernicus the Pragmatist
The early natural philosophers aimed to “save the appearances” with their epicycles, and epicycles upon epicycles, because if Aristotle was right that a circle was the most perfect shape, and that the celestial sphere was perfect, then it all the celestial objects had to be perfect circles and spheres. But there were some problems withContinueContinue reading “Copernicus the Pragmatist”
A Few Words On Atomism
The pre-Socratic philosophers Leucippus and Democritus are credited with the first theories of atoms. They basically said that all matter is composed of atoms, or constituent parts that cannot be further divided into smaller parts. Leucippus and Democritus, remember, were Greek, and the word atom derives from the prefix a- (meaning “not”) and the word tomos (meaningContinueContinue reading “A Few Words On Atomism”
Jesus In Your Heart, Devil In Your Brain?
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Hold up, little Bible study sheep! I attended Bible study this morning, and one of the facilitators of the group said something absolutely ridiculous. He spoke of Heaven, and I asked, “Is Heaven an actual place, or is it a state of mind?” The answer was baffling, not because it was profound,ContinueContinue reading “Jesus In Your Heart, Devil In Your Brain?”
Dark Matter: Not An Element
Yesterday, I wrote an article in part of which I discussed what Aristotle meant when he wrote about aether. I wrote: In a time when the terrestrial realm was thought to be of a different kind than the celestial realm, Aristotle believed that the four terrestrial elements were earth, wind, water, and fire; the celestialContinueContinue reading “Dark Matter: Not An Element”
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