Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen c. 965 – c. 1040) was an Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age. Continue reading Wisdom and Avoiding the End of the World
Category Archives: Wisdom
Letting Ideas Simmer
I’ve noticed another phenomenon of not writing a post for almost two weeks now. Not only is playing good for you, as I mentioned in my last post, but I find that various ideas simmer in my head even when I’m not writing about them. Continue reading Letting Ideas Simmer
When Should We Argue?
Agreeable Burden (William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1895)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
I have touched on this topic before, but advancing age and the finitude of life have caused me to think about this again. A few months ago, my post “On Belief and Skepticism,”
elicited this response from a reader: Continue reading When Should We Argue?
The World is Full of Damaged Psyches: You Will Live Better if You Avoid Them
Wilhelm Wundt (seated) with colleagues in his psychological laboratory, the first of its kind.
Let me begin by stating unequivocally that we are all flawed psyches; we are all damaged, we all deviate from psychic harmony. The world is full of damaged psyches. Continue reading The World is Full of Damaged Psyches: You Will Live Better if You Avoid Them
The Words and Wisdom of Will Durant
Will & Ariel Durant in their later years
As readers of this blog know the historian and philosopher Will Durant is one of my intellectual heroes. He was not only a great scholar but a wonderful prose stylist and a good and decent man. Continue reading The Words and Wisdom of Will Durant