Philosophy
« Previous EntriesReflections On Love – Part III
Saturday, February 20th, 2010The 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, 2010The 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, 2010These 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, 2009Just 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, 2009I 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; [...]
