There are different roads that may be taken in our quest for knowledge. The road of formal education is the surest way to fame and fortune ; but is it always the road to enlightenment?
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A meeting of minds
Posted in Philosophy, religion, tagged Apocalypse, DH Lawrence, Evolution, knowledge, learning on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Enduring truths
Posted in Literature, tagged consciousness, fantasy, knowledge, latent learning, legend, literature, Lord of the Rings, LOTR, myth, Tolkien, truth on October 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Why do some stories endure while others fail? Why do some stories have the power to change a person’s life? Is storytelling only fantasy, or is there more to it? Perhaps a famous tale of our times explains.
Past, present and future – an opinion
Posted in History, Philosophy, tagged Ecclesiastes, historical process, knowledge on February 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Somewhere in the book written by Ecclesiastes there are the words, Knowledge is a curse – or something similar. Perhaps he is near the mark. We can think of knowledge as the contents of our memory, both individual and collective. Most creatures have a memory of some kind, but what distinguishes us is that we [...]
Aspects of idealism
Posted in Philosophy, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged idealism, knowledge, phenomena, relationship, universe, World on May 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Something to meditate on. We say that we live in the World. We say that we know the World. What is the difference between the World, on the one hand, and what we know of the World, on the other? We live in a phenomenal world, a world of mental images consciously perceived. Surely the [...]
The modesty of wisdom
Posted in Belief, culture, Philosophy, tagged Delphi, knowledge, opinion, Socrates, wisdom on May 1, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The tale is told of how Socrates was confronted by a citizen of Athens who posed a question for him. “Socrates,” the man asked, “Why does the Oracle at Delphi describe you as the wisest man in the world?”
The answer he got was
Do numbers count?
Posted in Belief, Science, tagged knowledge, Louis Wolpert, numbers, strangeness on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The well-known biologist, Louis Wolpert is oft-quoted as saying, “The universe is not only stranger than we know, it is stranger than we can know.” Perhaps he was right, and perhaps he was wrong – maybe we shall never know or even be able to know. I wonder what it means to be unable to [...]
The tales they tell to children
Posted in culture, Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, tagged books, knowledge, language, material, quality, quantity, spiritual, symbols on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Where is the knowledge in books?
Science and omniscience
Posted in Belief, Psychology, Science, tagged Athene, knowledge, omniscience, progress, Science on February 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The first half of my working life was profitably and enjoyably spent in engineering ; electronic engineering. So I am happy about what science can do for technology. I have certain misgivings about the way that technology is used, but I’ll skip lightly over that for now. What crossed my mind, and what I’d like [...]
The man who knew too much?
Posted in Psychology, Science, Therapy, tagged Evolution, Freud, knowledge, myth, Science on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sigmund Freud was a remarkable man. Most people know that he was Jewish and born in Central Europe in the late nineteenth century. The most productive part of his life was spent in Vienna. He served in the German Army in WW1 and died in London just before WW2. The socialists seem to have hated [...]
Why life is interesting
Posted in Belief, Psychology, Science, tagged consciousness, form, function, immortality, knowledge, Life, soul on February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How do we know that our observations and concepts are stable enough for science to be enduring?
What you don’t know
Posted in Psychology, Science, tagged conscious, heart, inheritance, knowledge, memory, unconscious on February 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The things we know but don’t know that we know. Unconscious memories.
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