Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science
by Roald Hoffmann, Iain Boyd Whyte
Results Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science
Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays by Frederick Schiller ~ LETTER I By your permission I lay before you in a series of letters the results of my researches upon beauty and art I am keenly sensible of the importance as well as of the charm and dignity of this undertaking
Kant Immanuel Aesthetics Internet Encyclopedia of ~ Immanuel Kant Aesthetics Immanuel Kant is an 18th century German philosopher whose work initated dramatic changes in the fields of epistemology metaphysics ethics aesthetics and teleology Like many Enlightenment thinkers he holds our mental faculty of reason in high esteem he believes that it is our reason that invests the world we experience with structure
Twitpic ~ Dear Twitpic Community thank you for all the wonderful photos you have taken over the years We have now placed Twitpic in an archived state
Human Knowledge Foundations and Limits ~ Fideisms Judaism is the Semitic monotheistic fideist religion based on the Old Testaments 1000600 BCE rules for the worship of Yahweh by his chosen people the children of Abrahams son Isaac c1800 BCE Zoroastrianism is the Persian monotheistic fideist religion founded by Zarathustra c628c551 BCE and which teaches that good must be chosen over evil in order to achieve salvation
Understanding Evolution History Theory Evidence and ~ Charles Darwin was born in 1809 seven years after his grandfather Erasmus had died Charles grew up during a conservative period in British and American society shortly after the Napoleonic Wars
Science Wikipedia ~ Science in a broad sense existed before the modern era and in many historical civilizations Modern science is distinct in its approach and successful in its results so it now defines what science is in the strictest sense of the term Science in its original sense was a word for a type of knowledge rather than a specialized word for the pursuit of such knowledge In particular it was the
Immanuel Kant Wikipedia ~ Immanuel Kant k æ n t German ʔɪˈmaːnu̯eːl ˈkant nu̯ɛl 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804 was a German philosopher who is a central figure in modern philosophy In his doctrine of transcendental idealism he argued that space time and causation are mere sensibilities thingsinthemselves exist but their nature is unknowable In his view the mind shapes and
MacGuffinite Atomic Rockets ~ The whole structure of Western society may well be unfitted for the effort that the conquest of space demands No nation can afford to divert its ablest men into such essentially noncreative and occasionally parasitic occupations as law advertising and banking
The Art of Memory Why It’s Just About the Coolest Thing ~ When I was an undergraduate in the film department at the University of Colorado many years ago a visiting lecturer unfortunately I no longer remember his name recommended that I read a book called The Art of Memory by a woman named Frances Yates
Hindu Wisdom Hindu Art ~ European reaction to Indian Art Western stereotyping of Indian art and culture A failure of Western culture to come to terms with Hindu arts In the early period of European explorations of Asia travelers saw Hindu sacred images as infernal creatures and diabolic multiplelimbed monsters
