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Introduction (2009): Despite several thousand years of failure to correctly
understand physical reality (hence the current postmodern
view that this is impossible) it is actually very simple to work out
how matter exists and moves about in Space.
The rules of Science
(Occam's Razor / Simplicity) and Metaphysics
(Dynamic Unity of Reality) require that reality be described from only
one substance existing, as Leibniz
wrote; 'Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the
interconnection of all things with one another'.
When we deduce
this most Simple Science Theory of Reality we find that there is only
one possible solution: Space must be the substance which exists and matter
is formed from waves in Space. The electron is a spherical standing wave
in Space. See Wave
Diagrams
i.e. While there are many minds and material things, they all exist in one
common Space (just look around you and think about it). We can then show
that the Wave Structure of Matter is the correct solution as it deduces
the fundamentals of Physics
& Philosophy
perfectly (there are no opinions).
I realise that there are a lot of 'crackpot' theories about truth and reality
on the internet, but this solution is the most simple one and it is obvious
once known (though it takes time for our minds to adjust to new knowledge).
In hindsight the error was obvious - to try and describe an interconnected
reality from the foundation of many discrete and separate things, matter
'particles', which then required forces / fields to connect them in space
and time. This was always just a mathematical
solution which never explained how matter was connected across the universe.
For those who are religious
/ spiritual, I think Albert
Einstein expresses the enlightened view of God. He writes 'I believe
in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists,
not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.'
This harmony arises from a Wave Structure of Matter in Space (we are all
interconnected in this space that we all commonly experience). This unity
of reality (God, Brahman, Tao, Spirit, Energy, Light, Vibration) is central
to all major world religions, thus their common moral
foundation of 'Do unto others as to thyself' as the other is part of
the self.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a
revolutionary act. (George Orwell)
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Mohandas Gandhi)
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
(Edmund Burke)
Hell is Truth Seen Too Late. (Thomas Hobbes)
Philosophy Book
Chapter Twenty: Voltaire Brief Biography of Voltaire: Summary of Ideas, Portrait & Quotes
This webpage contains a brief overview of the recently published
book 'Philosophical Sketches'. Below you will find a short Chapter summary
on Voltaire, the book cover and back page text, links to other book chapters,
and introduction. You can buy this book online at our Cafepress Philosophy
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Geoff Haselhurst & Karene Jade Howie
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Twenty: Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name
Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, deist and philosopher.
Voltaire perceived the French bourgeoisie to be too small and ineffective,
the aristocracy to be parasitic and corrupt, the commoners as ignorant and
superstitious, and the church as a static force only useful as a counterbalance
since its "religious tax", or the tithe, helped to cement a powerbase
against the monarchy.
Voltaire distrusted democracy, which he saw as propagating the idiocy of the
masses. To Voltaire only an enlightened monarch, advised by philosophers like
himself, could bring about change as it was in the king's rational interest
to improve the power and wealth of France in the world. Voltaire is quoted
as saying that he "would rather obey one lion, than 200 rats of (his own)
species". Voltaire essentially believed monarchy to be the key to progress
and change.
He is best known in this day and age for his novel, Candide ou l'Optimisme
(1759), which satirizes the philosophy of Gottfried Leibniz. Voltaire is also
known for many memorable aphorisms, like Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait
l'inventer ("If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him"). ...
(see book for more)
One hundred years from my day there will not be a Bible in the
earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity seeker.
Love truth, but pardon error.
It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
Common sense is not so common.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm
us.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our
follies - it is the first law of nature.
(Voltaire)
A lively and concise journey through the central
ideas of thirty famous philosophers. From ancient Indian, Greek and Chinese
Philosophy to modern Western Philosophy, this book explores the changing foundations
of human knowledge and their effect on how we think and live.
Includes full page portraits, brief biographies and selected quotes from some
of the greatest minds of human history on the universal subjects of Truth,
Reality, Nature, Cosmos, Wisdom, Morality, Mind, Education, Politics, Art,
Religion & God.
Written for the lay person, while remaining true to the original ideas, this
is an engaging account of the Metaphysical foundations of Philosophy that is
both illuminating and thought provoking. (Cover Photograph: Plato & Aristotle
- The School of Athens by Raphael)
Philosophy Book Philosophical Sketches: Chapter Headings & Content Summary
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
(Mohandas Gandhi)
The free, unhampered exchange of ideas and scientific conclusions is necessary for the sound development of science, as it is in all spheres of cultural life. ... We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. ...
Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking if it is to survive!" (Albert Einstein)
This is the profound new way of thinking that Einstein realised, that we exist as spatially extended structures of the universe - the discrete and separate body an illusion. This simply confirms the intuitions of the ancient philosophers and mystics.
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