the ongoing disaster at Fukushima shows avoiding mankind how it is incapable to make such serious decisions and developments as affect centuries if not millennia.
Showing posts with label gnothi seauton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gnothi seauton. Show all posts
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Thursday, March 28, 2013
gnothi seauton!?
man imagines it knows himself (or could if it made the effort)
(worth knowing that while "know thyself" in one form or language or other is spread from (disputably) Thales of Miletus via Plato, Linnaeus, et al, even onto The Matrix, that there appears to be no full scholarly study of the history of it as an idea: gnothi seauton, nosce te ipsum, know yourself.)
(worth knowing that while "know thyself" in one form or language or other is spread from (disputably) Thales of Miletus via Plato, Linnaeus, et al, even onto The Matrix, that there appears to be no full scholarly study of the history of it as an idea: gnothi seauton, nosce te ipsum, know yourself.)
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Friday, November 23, 2012
traveling in history
a traveler in history is an internal journeyer into our human being (our 'human having been'), with such study and insight leading also to a kind of self-knowledge, of the history of which we are a part.
education (leading out) rather than entertainment, distraction or escape, I doubt there is much I could have done in Moscow -- since it prides itself now on being a normal city (if with greater variety and choices than more staid London and NY?) -- and certainly nothing I did, that would have been as exciting and "insight-yielding" as reading in the recently-received Early Anthropology in the 16th and 17th Centuries (1964) by Margaret Hogden -- which admittedly addresses directly the history of the understanding of man by man, which is clearly also in the direction of gnothi seauton (which most -- it is important to know, prefer to ignore, though some few not).
education (leading out) rather than entertainment, distraction or escape, I doubt there is much I could have done in Moscow -- since it prides itself now on being a normal city (if with greater variety and choices than more staid London and NY?) -- and certainly nothing I did, that would have been as exciting and "insight-yielding" as reading in the recently-received Early Anthropology in the 16th and 17th Centuries (1964) by Margaret Hogden -- which admittedly addresses directly the history of the understanding of man by man, which is clearly also in the direction of gnothi seauton (which most -- it is important to know, prefer to ignore, though some few not).
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