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From: Agathon
Poetic Works (June 2009), in two volumes, 770 pages, has recently been published. Frankly, some of it is hard going for the general reader, with lots of potential for really serious discussion. There’s lots there about the nature of the cosmos. Agathon is one of the characters in a long mystery poem in volume two, and (just coincidentally!) in Plato's Symposium.
dbScriptorium, the home site, also has a great deal of writing about finding meaning in the new understandings of cosmos. Has it struck you as pretty curious that somehow there has evolved a cosmos, a realm of Natural Order, in which physics and psyche actually live and work together? -- one realm highly structured that can (mostly) be described by mathematics? -- and another realm, conscious and unconscious, that can get very murky, with dreams and all sorts of fantastic images and ideas, that seem beyond all hope of any “Order”, or mathematical description?
At least I think so, and would be glad to discuss that with others who are searching too for an understanding of the nature of Ultimate Nature, a search which can help make life a truly meaning-full adventure. Whoever you are, student or professor, psychology or physics, and anybody else, please chime in.
I plan to stick pretty closely to the topics in the writings. Current politics and other aspects of pop culture don’t interest me much, at least here, but whatever comes up, we need to keep it civil, and generate the kind of light that does not give off heat.
Also, it’s not a place for “breaking news” – Why would anybody want to break the News -- seems to me it’s already pretty badly broken !! (But that’s one of the reasons we’ll be trying to “get it all together” and sort out our collective thoughts.) Of course I am interested in political philosophy (e pluribus unum !), in the ideas that can hold us all together despite our differences in approach to practical problems.
(edited 14 Sept '09)
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Posted by agathon on 2009-06-23 19:42:19 | Rating: | Views: 66
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