Friday, December 15, 2017
Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star
NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates
NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates: NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and orbiting in their star's habitable zone, which is the range of distance from a star where liquid water could pool on the surface of a rocky planet.
Thursday, December 14, 2017
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Vatican nativity scene, Christmas tree unveiled
The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy
The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy:
When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about “Presocratic philosophy” in the first place? How did early Greek thinkers come to be considered collectively as Presocratic philosophers? In this brief book, André Laks provides a history of the influential idea of Presocratic philosophy, tracing its historical and philosophical significance and consequences, from its ancient antecedents to its full crystallization in the modern period and its continuing effects today.Laks examines ancient Greek and Roman views about the birth of philosophy before turning to the eighteenth-century emergence of the term “Presocratics” and the debates about it that spanned the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He analyzes the intellectual circumstances that led to the idea of Presocratic philosophy—and what was and is at stake in the construction of the notion. The book closes by comparing two models of the history of philosophy—the phenomenological, represented by Hans-Georg Gadamer, and the rationalist, represented by Ernst Cassirer—and their implications for Presocratic philosophy, as well as other categories of philosophical history. Other figures discussed include Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Diogenes Laertius, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Nietzsche, Max Weber, and J.-P. Vernant.Challenging standard histories of Presocratic philosophy, the book calls for a reconsideration of the conventional story of early Greek philosophy and Western rationality.
When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about “Presocratic philosophy” in the first place? How did early Greek thinkers come to be considered collectively as Presocratic philosophers? In this brief book, André Laks provides a history of the influential idea of Presocratic philosophy, tracing its historical and philosophical significance and consequences, from its ancient antecedents to its full crystallization in the modern period and its continuing effects today.Laks examines ancient Greek and Roman views about the birth of philosophy before turning to the eighteenth-century emergence of the term “Presocratics” and the debates about it that spanned the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He analyzes the intellectual circumstances that led to the idea of Presocratic philosophy—and what was and is at stake in the construction of the notion. The book closes by comparing two models of the history of philosophy—the phenomenological, represented by Hans-Georg Gadamer, and the rationalist, represented by Ernst Cassirer—and their implications for Presocratic philosophy, as well as other categories of philosophical history. Other figures discussed include Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Diogenes Laertius, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Nietzsche, Max Weber, and J.-P. Vernant.Challenging standard histories of Presocratic philosophy, the book calls for a reconsideration of the conventional story of early Greek philosophy and Western rationality.
The Courage to Think For Yourself The Search For Truth and The Meaning of Human Life: https://leszekfigurski.org/articles/
The Courage to Think For Yourself The Search For Truth and The Meaning of Human Life: https://leszekfigurski.org/articles/: https://leszekfigurski.org/articles/ Atheism and Human Knowledge Atheism and Human Knowledge Atheism and Human Knowledge
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Monday, December 11, 2017
The Courage to Think For Yourself The Search For Truth and The Meaning of Human Life: God, Evil and Atheism - Why is there evil in this ...
The Courage to Think For Yourself The Search For Truth and The Meaning of Human Life: God, Evil and Atheism - Why is there evil in this ...: Introduction In the monotheistic religions of the world God is conceived...
The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning
The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning: This sequel to 'God and the New Physics', explores the fascinating questions of modern physics such as why does maths, an abstract system of logic invented by man prove to be so useful in understanding the laws of nature and is the existence of intelligent life a random chance or in some sense an inevitable and essential part of the cosmos?
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Scripture Speaks: Prepare Your Hearts
Scripture Speaks: Prepare Your Hearts: In Advent, if we ask how we can prepare for the coming of Jesus in this new liturgical year, today’s readings are loaded with answers. Gospel (Read Mk 1:1-8) At the beginning of St. Mark’s Gospel, he announces that Isaiah’s centuries-old prophecy of one who will prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah …
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