People have been dancing around the faith/reason duality for more than 2000 years. Aristotle worked out the rules of logic around 350 BCE, and Thomas Aquinas assumed the task of using them to prove the existence of God in the …
Tag: Descartes
Faith and Reason
Tagged with: Aristotle worked out the rules of logic, Descartes, faith runs headlong into logical inconsistencies, faith/reason duality, Thomas Aquinas assumed the task of using logic to prove the existence of God, You can't have your metaphysical cake and eat it too, You either believe in things for which there is evidence or you don't."
Spinoza’s God
Spinoza was one of the so-called continental rationalists, along with Descartes, Leibniz and others less often read today. As suggested by Einstein at left, he had a distinctly nontraditional view of God, which got him in a great deal of …
France Will Lead the World In Clean Energy
I’ve often said that I expect France to lead the way in terms of the adoption of clean energy, for two main reasons: 1) They’re self-styled; they don’t ask permission; they just do what they think is right. They refer …
Riddles of Matter, Energy, Space, and Time
I remember the first evening of a course in existentialism I had 37 years ago this fall, in which I asked the professor, “According to (Nobel prize-winner and existentialist superstar) Albert Camus, ‘suicide is the only valid philosophical question,’ implying …
Tagged with: Albert Camus, Brian Greene, Descartes, energy, Existentialism, Socrates, superstring theory, TED Talks, The Fabric of the Cosmos
