My high school class will have a 50th reunion this year. I am not going. Continue reading You Can’t Go Home Again
Category Archives: Time
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
Dinner For Nietzsche: Rhythms, Rituals, And Eternal Return
Stone where Nietzsche reports having had the inspiration for his ‘eternal return’, with commemorative plaque.1 Continue reading Dinner For Nietzsche: Rhythms, Rituals, And Eternal Return
The Past Is Alive
Will and Ariel Durant (1930)
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time.
Summary of Seneca, “On the Shortness of Life”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65)
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As they age wise persons often lose interest in the inessential. The Stoic philosopher
Seneca touched on a similar theme in his piece, On the Shortness of Life:
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Continue reading Summary of Seneca, “On the Shortness of Life”