Metaphysics
Here’s a very short video on the subject of metaphysics, the philosophy of being and reality.
It’s a great example of what I mean when I say that it has been a terrible last few centuries for philosophers.
In ancient times, if you wanted to know what the fundamental building blocks of the universe were, you asked a philosopher, perhaps the ancient Athenian Democritus, who propounded the theory of the atom, which was, by definition, indivisible. Now we refer this question to the realm of particle physics.
Far more recently, those who struggled to know the ultimate nature of reality asked a metaphysician. Now, once again, we’ve put our trust in science.
I hope you’ll check out the video linked above.
As a PhD colleague once told me, “If you don’t care how much you pay for electricity, I’ll get you all the renewable energy you could ever ask for.”
At left we see why Lincoln would have done well to let the Confederacy cede from the Union. He could have simply written a letter to Robert E. Lee stating:
What former labor secretary Robert Reich says at left is exactly what I believe.
I can’t see it, if he means a national office. Why? He’s an ardent and outspoken Trump supporter.
I thought the cartoon below was clever.
I’ll be the first to admit that most of what readers come across here is not my original thinking.
From “Mechanical Engineers Rock”:
Trump’s second term has shown us that he and his inner circle have limitless creativity when it comes to finding things to destroy and inflicting huge damage.
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