Let go of a balloon, a whale dies
Our most simple, accidental actions can have disastrous results. Human actions have consequences. Something similar to the ‘butterfly effect‘. A recent post shared France’s efforts (and French people) to reduce and eventually stop plastic and other non-organic waste. The Pacific Ocean garbage patch (Wikipedia, CNN, National Geographic) has been well covered in mainstream press. On…
Seneca, Rolling Stones and Cheryl Crow
I found a thread of commonality running from Heraclitus, Seneca, the Rolling Stones, and Cheryl Crow. This message is not exclusive to stoics, but maybe they were the ones who could walk the talk. “If you don’t regard what you have as enough, you will never be happy even if you rule the entire world”….
Stoicism and eudaemonia
In a recent Wikipedia serach, a definition of Stoicism came back with this phrase: Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.[1] The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve eudaimonia: a well-lived life. The Stoics identified the path to achieving it with a life spent practicing certain virtues in everyday life such as…
Earth’s reality and the limits of human sensors
Philosophically, one can dive as deep as one wants on human perception vs reality. In a world filled with human engineered and binary coded sensors, the physical world (reality) seems scientifically ‘known’. I am not confident with that knowledge. I propose a distinction between ‘earth’s reality’ and ‘human’s knowledge of earth’s reality’ (regardless of scientific…
Immanuel Kant on wisdom
Immanuel Kant can be a hard read (Bio Wikipedia). His work is complex and translations into English are challenged. A newly found application / website, Blinklist, simplified and commented on a couple of Kant’s statements that merit deeper thought. The statement from Kant Great minds think for themselves. https://www.blinkist.com/magazine/posts/immanuel-kant-quotes-expand-mind Blinklist then commented on that statement…