Philosophy Entropy | 09 Jun 2011
All Wikipedia pages eventually seems to lead to the Wikipedia page on Philosophy. Jeffrey Winter has put together a little web application that will take your query and show you how to get from, say, Graphic Design to Philosophy (17 degrees of separation). There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link [...]
Philosophy Entropy | 26 Jul 2010
There are no facts, only interpretations. – Friedrich Nietzsche- Notebooks (Summer 1886 – Fall 1887) According to Yale Psychologist Professor Paul Bloom- Perhaps the good life doesn’t require constant warfare. Perhaps people are better off if their multiple selves establish a truce, respecting one another’s different strengths, and working together to satisfy shared goals. Pl [...]
Philosophy &Poetry- Physics Entropy | 25 May 2010
William Bronk’s poetry begins where philosophy leaves off: in the enactment of an idea, in the testing of a proposition. Each poem addresses itself to a central question of existence, not only why we are here but where we are. It seems there is more than one way to argue about the nature of reality. [...]
Cinema &Philosophy Entropy | 21 Oct 2009
Psychologists and philosophers tend to gravitate toward very different views of conduct and whether we can truly say that there is such a thing as character. Read this profound & insightful essay by NYT Columnist David Brooks.. Where the Wild Things Are In Homer’s poetry, every hero has a trait. Achilles is angry. Odysseus is [...]
Philosophy &Poetry Entropy | 22 May 2009
W.S. Merwin is a major American writer whose poetry, translations, and prose.The intentions of Merwin’s poetry are as broad as the biosphere yet as intimate as a whisper. He conveys in the sweet simplicity of grounded language a sense of the self where it belongs, floating between heaven, earth, and underground. To the Consolations of [...]
Life &Philosophy Entropy | 08 Apr 2009
This is a deeply insightful & relevant piece by one of my favorite NYT Columnist David Books The End of Philosophy. Socrates talked. The assumption behind his approach to philosophy, and the approaches of millions of people since, is that moral thinking is mostly a matter of reason and deliberation: Think through moral problems. Find [...]