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QuirkSand: May 2009
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Quirks are tiny flaws. They refract our inner light like the facets of a jewel. How much less interesting it would be if we all were flawless! Jim Bennett, Dec. 2006. Sunday, May 31, 2009. Since I wrote my first article on Taoism. I've read some different versions of the Tao Te Ching. I'd like to recommend the book by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo as a good place to start if you are interested in learning about Taoism ("Tao Te Ching", 1993, Hackett Publishing). Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Anyway, Eccl...
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QuirkSand: First steps: Taoism
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Quirks are tiny flaws. They refract our inner light like the facets of a jewel. How much less interesting it would be if we all were flawless! Jim Bennett, Dec. 2006. Thursday, April 30, 2009. Taoism gets its name from the Chinese word meaning way (above). This is the first word of a Chinese text that was supposed to have been written by the Chinese sage Lao-Tzu. See the Wikipedia article on the Tao Te Ching. For more details, and also the one on Taoism. The Tao seems to be some underlying principle of t...
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QuirkSand: First steps: Epicureanism
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Quirks are tiny flaws. They refract our inner light like the facets of a jewel. How much less interesting it would be if we all were flawless! Jim Bennett, Dec. 2006. Saturday, July 18, 2009. For more on this. The Roman poet Lucretius wrote an epic poem called "On the Nature of Things", where he presents the main ideas and arguments of Epicureanism (see Nature of Things. The Epicureans had a materialistic world view, thinking that the universe was composed of atoms. Even the Gods were made of atoms&#...
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QuirkSand: First steps: Cynicism
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Quirks are tiny flaws. They refract our inner light like the facets of a jewel. How much less interesting it would be if we all were flawless! Jim Bennett, Dec. 2006. Thursday, September 17, 2009. I wanted to talk about two other Greek schools of philosophy, Cynicism and Skepticism. In reading about Cynicism, I realized I should have covered the Cynics before discussing Stoicism, since it appears that the Stoics derived many of their ideas from the Cynics. This article on Cynicism. The Cynics believed th...
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QuirkSand: First steps: Confucianism
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Quirks are tiny flaws. They refract our inner light like the facets of a jewel. How much less interesting it would be if we all were flawless! Jim Bennett, Dec. 2006. Wednesday, April 8, 2009. Where I got that quote above, for a more detailed discussion of Confucianism. Confucianism seems obsessed with maintaining order, which makes it a difficult philosophy to love. Is it really our highest goal to lead an orderly (harmonious) existence? Perhaps it has to do with the idea of progress. Progress is so...
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QuirkSand: First steps: Ecclesiastes
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Quirks are tiny flaws. They refract our inner light like the facets of a jewel. How much less interesting it would be if we all were flawless! Jim Bennett, Dec. 2006. Wednesday, May 20, 2009. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full" - Ecclesiastes 1:7. Or is it perhaps just another version of a chariot, and not truly new? Most of the early philosophies place mankind in a special category that is different from the beasts, and so they don't seriously consider this question. Even this ...
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QuirkSand: First steps: Skepticism
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Quirks are tiny flaws. They refract our inner light like the facets of a jewel. How much less interesting it would be if we all were flawless! Jim Bennett, Dec. 2006. Monday, September 21, 2009. The Skeptics believed you could never be completely certain of the truth. For example, you can't really know what objects really are, only how they appear. Your senses could be fooling you. Pyrrho. Another Skeptic was Carneadus. Here's an overview article about Skepticism. To me, Skepticism seems less like a comp...
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QuirkSand: Taoism revisited
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Quirks are tiny flaws. They refract our inner light like the facets of a jewel. How much less interesting it would be if we all were flawless! Jim Bennett, Dec. 2006. Sunday, May 31, 2009. Since I wrote my first article on Taoism. I've read some different versions of the Tao Te Ching. I'd like to recommend the book by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo as a good place to start if you are interested in learning about Taoism ("Tao Te Ching", 1993, Hackett Publishing). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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QuirkSand: September 2009
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Quirks are tiny flaws. They refract our inner light like the facets of a jewel. How much less interesting it would be if we all were flawless! Jim Bennett, Dec. 2006. Monday, September 21, 2009. The Skeptics believed you could never be completely certain of the truth. For example, you can't really know what objects really are, only how they appear. Your senses could be fooling you. Pyrrho. Another Skeptic was Carneadus. Here's an overview article about Skepticism. To me, Skepticism seems less like a comp...
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