vol VII: Notes

2012

Notes

[Sunday 18 March 2012 - Saturday 24 March 2012]

[Notebook: DB 71 Israel]

Sunday 18 March 2012

Monday 19 March 2012

[page 130]

Tuesday 20 March 2012

[page 131]

Kirkegaard: 'All existence makes me anxious, from the smallest fly to the mysteries of the incarnation; the whole thing is inexplicable, I most of all; to me all existence is infected, I most of all. My distress is enormous, boundless; no one knows it except God in heaven and he will not console me . . . '. Quoted in Marmo. [?]

Wednesday 21 March 2012

Thursday 22 March 2012

'Greatest story ever sold to NY times. By broadening my enemy, from Catholicism to tradition, I have simultaneously broadened the solution: the fundamental insight is that the world is dynamic -- very few things stay the same forever. [Catholicism is involved in an endless fight against change and evolution]

Friday 23 March 2012

Saturday 24 March 2012

First comes the love and then comes the details as the newly bonded couple develop their duality.

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Further reading

Books

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Aristotle, and Robin Smith (editor), Aristotle, Prior Analytics, Hackett Publishing Company 1989 The Prior Analytics gives us Aristotles model of logical argument, what we might now call formal logic. The central idea is the combinations of premisses into syllogisms to yield conclusions that can be trusted. 'A premiss is a sentence affirming or denying one thing of another. (24a16) A syllogism is discourse in which, certain things being stated, something other than what is stated follows of necessity from their being so.' (24b18)back

Ashby, W Ross, An Introduction to Cybernetics, Methuen 1964 'This book is intended to provide [an introduction to cybernetics]. It starts from common-place and well understood concepts, and proceeds step by step to show how these concepts can be made exact, and how they can be developed until they lead into such subjects as feedback, stability, regulation, ultrastability, information, coding, noise and other cybernetic topics'  Amazon   back

Doyle, Arthur Conan, The Case-Book of Shlock Holmes, NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company 1993 Introduction: 'This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories from The Strand Magazine. It contains the short story series Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, a siniter novella which appeared in 1914-15, His last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes and the last twelve stories of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. . . . Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. He was educated at Stonyhurst and Edinburgh University where he qualified as a doctor. He practised at Southsea from 1882-1890, but from that date he devoted himself entirely to writing. Without doubt the Sherlock Holmes stories are his finest work, but Doyle himself always preferred his other writings, especially the Historical Romances such as Micah Clarke, Sir Nigel, and The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard which recount the preposterous adventures of a vainglorious officer of Napoleon's cavalry, and the Professor Challenger series, the first of which was The Lost World (1912). In later years Doyle's increasing obsession with spiritualism clouded his judgement. He was knighted in 1902 and died in 1930.'   Amazon   back

Elliott, Mary, and (Foreword by Paul Ehrlich), Ground for Concern, Penguin Books 1977 Preface: 'This book is neither a political manifesto nor a textbook on nuclear power. It is a reasoned statement of the concern that Australians, and people throughout the world, feel about the prospects of a nuclear future. The authors have tried to grapple honestly with the problems of the atomic age, which is our age. They have tried to speak about complex matters in plain language.'  Amazon   back

Lonergan, Bernard J F, Insight : A Study of Human Understanding (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan : Volume 3), University of Toronto Press 1992 '... Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. Its aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, an understanding of understanding'  Amazon   back

Ross , W D (editor) , Aristotle's Prior and Posterior Analytics. a Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary , Oxford University Press 2000   Amazon   back

Wolf, Alan, The Spiritual Universe: How Quantum Physics Proves the Existence of the Soul , Simon & Schuster 1996 Amazon Editorial Reviews From Booklist 'Now there's a subtitle with legs! The book to which it applies, however, is both better and worse than it promises. Better, because the book is more careful and exact, and worse--especially for the reader looking for the philosophical magic bullet--because the book is more careful and exact. Physicist Wolf, author of other popular books on his specialty (Taking the Quantum Leap [1989], The Body Quantum [1986], etc.), proves scientifically the existence of the soul, but only by defining soul so broadly that many will be disappointed. For it is not the personal soul that he is concerned with. Rather, Wolf's soul more nearly resembles the world soul of the gnostics. As usual, Wolf is methodical and clear at explicating physics and thereby provides physics-phobics a wide bridge to understanding some often arcane material. Patricia Monaghan   Amazon   back