Philosophy

Reflections On Love – Part III

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

The past week or so I’ve been writing a lot about love.  The first was a sort of philosophical inquiry about love, touching on various topics.  Next I tried to make another post about love, dealing with practical issues, but ended up off track and talking about all kinds of other things instead.
Well, today I’m [...]

Reflections On Love – Part II

Monday, February 15th, 2010

The other day I wrote a little bit about love, but looking it over I seem to have fallen into the same trap I often do — speaking too generally, and not giving enough specifics.  Instead of reflecting about love at such an abstract level, I’ll be a lot more practical this time.   Here we [...]

Symphony Of Science

Monday, February 8th, 2010

These are probably the most amazing videos on Youtube.  At least, I think so.  Thinking on the topics in these videos  makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.  All distinctions between myself and all other life disappear.  A small confined world of conflict and struggle gives way to an unbound infinite universe.
Just watch as David [...]

Power And Corruption

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Just today I received a comment from Yamin, related to my post on whether engineers should rule the world or not.  I thought the conversation was worthy of its own post, and wanted to share it:
Yamin commented:
No, engineers should not rule the world.
This is just another variation on Plato’s philosopher kings…
Power corrupts and absolute power [...]

Some Wisdom From Voltaire

Monday, December 28th, 2009

I haven’t posted in a while, but I wanted to leave something on here before the year ends.  Here’s  three of my favorite quotes from the French philosopher Voltaire:
“It is forbidden to kill, therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
“The less superstition, the less fanatitcism; [...]