My recent post, “A Skeptic’s View of the Meaning of Life” elicited the following response from a regular reader.
Monthly Archives: February 2023
Different Kinds of Love
I have discussed love in a number of previous posts: “On Love and Pain,” “Human Relationships on a Sliding Scale,” “Romantic Love and the Idea of Settling,” “We Must Love One Another or Die,” “Is Love Stronger Than Death?” and “The Art of Loving.” Continue reading Different Kinds of Love
The Serenity Prayer and Hope
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 – 1971)
The Serenity Prayer is the common name for a prayer written by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. The best-known form is: Continue reading The Serenity Prayer and Hope
Time, Death, and the Meaning of Life
In my last post, I reviewed Sabine Hossenfelder’s Existential Physics: A Scientists Guide To Life’s Biggest Questions. However, I failed to comment on one of its essential passages concerning time, death, and meaning. It involves the block universe or eternalism, the Einsteinian idea that “there is no basis for singling out a present time that separates the past from the future because all times coexist with equal status.”1 Hossenfelder explains what this means with this simple image, Continue reading Time, Death, and the Meaning of Life
Review of Sabine Hossenfelder’s, “Existential Physics”
Sabine Hossenfelder is a German theoretical physicist, science communicator, author, musician and YouTuber. She is currently employed as a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Her new book, Existential Physics: A Scientists Guide To Life’s Biggest Questions is outstanding. Continue reading Review of Sabine Hossenfelder’s, “Existential Physics”