Philosophy
Beauty enhances life. A life lived surrounded by beauty is a better life than one not. Does this mean that beauty is a moral concept? Do we have an obligation to make the world more beautiful if we can? Do we have a moral duty to create beauty?
- Diotima On Love - Extracts
From Plato?s book; The Symposium (The Drinking Party) Several speakers give a short speech saying what they think love is; and then finally Socrates says what he thinks love is. His speech includes the speech of the mysterious wise woman Diotima who instructs...
- Richard Feynman - Ode To A Flower
A common misconception regarding disciplines that require abstract and rigorous thinking (math, philosophy, science, etc.) is that their cold and rational nature strips the world (and our experience of it) of its natural beauty and the awe it can inspire...
- Why Do Viruses Kill?
You've gotten the quick intro to how viruses invade our bodies before (with Robert Krulwich, no less), but today we get the full BBC treatment, so to speak. Viruses are way more ubiquitous than we normally realize, and although they have a bad reputation...
- Can't Be Done...quantification Of Human Preferences
Wired Science... The Mathematics of Beauty Not everything can be quantified, especially when it comes to matters of the human heart and mind. For decades, psychologists and biologists have tried to represent physical beauty in formula form; but even...
- Geometry In Science And Art
"Science, Art and Geometrical Imagination" by Jean-Pierre Luminet Abstract: From the geocentric, closed world model of Antiquity to the wraparound universe models of relativistic cosmology, the parallel history of space representations in science and...
Philosophy
Is Beauty an Ethical Notion?
Beauty enhances life. A life lived surrounded by beauty is a better life than one not. Does this mean that beauty is a moral concept? Do we have an obligation to make the world more beautiful if we can? Do we have a moral duty to create beauty?
- Diotima On Love - Extracts
From Plato?s book; The Symposium (The Drinking Party) Several speakers give a short speech saying what they think love is; and then finally Socrates says what he thinks love is. His speech includes the speech of the mysterious wise woman Diotima who instructs...
- Richard Feynman - Ode To A Flower
A common misconception regarding disciplines that require abstract and rigorous thinking (math, philosophy, science, etc.) is that their cold and rational nature strips the world (and our experience of it) of its natural beauty and the awe it can inspire...
- Why Do Viruses Kill?
You've gotten the quick intro to how viruses invade our bodies before (with Robert Krulwich, no less), but today we get the full BBC treatment, so to speak. Viruses are way more ubiquitous than we normally realize, and although they have a bad reputation...
- Can't Be Done...quantification Of Human Preferences
Wired Science... The Mathematics of Beauty Not everything can be quantified, especially when it comes to matters of the human heart and mind. For decades, psychologists and biologists have tried to represent physical beauty in formula form; but even...
- Geometry In Science And Art
"Science, Art and Geometrical Imagination" by Jean-Pierre Luminet Abstract: From the geocentric, closed world model of Antiquity to the wraparound universe models of relativistic cosmology, the parallel history of space representations in science and...