Archive: Philosophy category
Hugh Nibley's got a riveting bit in "Zeal Without Knowledge" on our ability to only think of one thing at a time:
I just started reading Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, and although I'm only twelve pages in, I'm already in love with this book. Here's a bit from page 11 on clocks, quoting Lewis Mumford:
"The clock," Mumford has concluded, "is a piece of power machinery whose 'product' is seconds ...
It's funny how your perspective is often so tied up with your capability. For example, five miles might seem like an objective measurement on the surface, but five miles to someone who has a car is not the same as five miles to someone who doesn't have one. ...
At work a few weeks ago we took the MBTI, which is the Myers-Briggs test (except it's not really a "test," mind you :P). We turned the bubble sheets back in and then today got our scores back, along with a really good presentation on what it all ...
Today's post will be short. :) It's this quote from Nietzche:
He who has a "why" to live, can bear with almost any "how."
So true, both on the grand scale of things and on an individual event-by-event basis. Keep that "why" in focus and you'll be set.
Stumbled across a quote by John Adams that really struck me hard:
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give ...
In the quintessential example, the hammer slams against the wood and a flurry of typographical marks (#@!%^&@!) flies into the air as the nail breathes a sigh of relief when it realizes it's safe for at least another few seconds, and the finger calls ER while shaking its head and ...
"For I the Lord cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance." --D&C 1:31
It might seem odd, but this is swiftly becoming one of my favorite scriptures. Good and evil exist, the Lord is saying, and evil is absolutely wrong. Black and white. No ...
Over at The Edge last year, they asked the question "What is your dangerous idea?" to the world's leading thinkers, and got quite a lot of answers. This year the question is "What are you optimistic about?", and the answers are intriguing.
Steven Pinker talks about ...
