This is an original and plausible theory of scientific progress. Theories that will later be proven true initially seem obviously in conflict with the facts. When Galileo claimed that the earth was always moving, that seemed obviously in conflict with the fact that when we jump in the air, we land in the same place.
A really wonderful essay! Expresses in its own way Evagrius’s ideas about rehabilitating the tripartite soul, one dimension of which, the epithymētikon, is the soul’s faculty of desire.
Rightly ordered, this faculty indeed loves God with fervent, fiery desire; and through loving God, loves human beings and indeed all creation with the sa…
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It’s Friday and chapter three is well under-way! Tomorrow I go on Spring Break and have two weeks off from school in order to finish Part Two. Here comes the magic!
“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.
Finding the others is about realizing that you are not alone in this quest."