Archive for the ‘Time’ Category

November 28, 2009 0

Astronomy and Alienation: Preliminary Thoughts

By Robert Minto in Astronomy, Man, Time

Next semester I’ll be taking my “lab science” : astronomy. I love the fact that my lab involves staring at stars. But more than that, I’m fascinated by the development of the meaning of the study of astronomy. I hope to study and write about that; but even now, before it has become a conscious [...]

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November 25, 2009 1

Are We Temporally Alienated?

By Robert Minto in History, Time

One of my Thanksgiving break projects is to finish a paper comparing the views of Maimonides and Averroes on the relation of the truths of faith and philosophy. To that end, I’m reading the fabulous new biography of Maimonides by Joel Kraemer: Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds.
One of Maimonides [...]

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