I wrote the following in 1999, meaning to flesh it out more fully. Consistency of messages among 40+ writers over 1,600+ years Here work needs to be done on finding other multiple-author works and comparing their internal consistency to that of the Bible. The methodology will need to eliminate questions of interpretation. Claims in the […]
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Prior to the 2020 election the Hatfield vs McCoy pejoratives seemed to be “extreme right wing” vs “liberal”. The latter has faded away. Now it’s “progressive”. Why? I think because it denotes a more definite leftist position. This type of labeling goes back a ways. “The French Revolution set up the spectrum of political views
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Rene Descartes famously said “cogito ergo sum”, I think therefore I am. He had wondered if the existence of everything could be doubted. The one thing he could not doubt was that he was thinking. From this he built up his philosophy. But, why stop where he did? Why not “I think therefore I think
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624-546 Thales of MiletusGreek mathematician, astronomer and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regarded him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition.
610-546 Anaximander Greek philosopher who was the first to develop a systematic philosophical view of the world. Also of Miletus, was likely the teacher of Pythagoras.
570-495 Pythagoras Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagorean brotherhood that, although religious in nature, formulated principles that influenced the thought of Plato and Aristotle and contributed to the development of mathematics and Western rational philosophy. Maintained that the ultimate reality was abstract and relational, depending on numbers.
Firat, science is the process of explaining observations about the world around us. Call them “facts”. It proceeds by stating hypotheses, which can be confirmed or negated at some level of probability. Many of the facts are inferred from indirect observation. The fact of the existence of the Higgs boson is a fairly recent example.
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551-479 Confucius China’s most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, whose ideas have influenced the civilization of East Asia. He emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice, kindness, and sincerity.
535-475 Heraclitus Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus. Claimed that fire is the foundation of existence, which is ever flowing. Famous for saying “No man ever steps in the same river twice”.
515-? Parmenides Greek philosopher of Elea in southern Italy held that the multiplicity of existing things, their changing forms and motion, are but an appearance of a single eternal reality, thus considered one of the founders of metaphysics. Plato’s dialogue the Parmenides deals with his thought.