Joi Ito's blog, with a short, inspiring post on pruning a dangerous tree with Shinto paper necklaces and Shinto prayers of honoring (irreverently, may I joke that it's sorta like being a kosher butcher, but with Shinto ritual and trees, rather than Jewish
In China, for example, there was no biology. Observations and theoretical perspectives on the manifestations of life were scattered through a very different grouping of knowledge that I will sketch out below. Alchemists, East and West, set down a great de
Book Review by Brian Eno. Philosophy & Social Hope published in 2000. "Truth Without Correspondence to Reality," "A World Without Substances or Essences," and "Ethics Without Principles" are a few of the essay titles.
Living with multiple claims to Truth, none 'proveable,' we choose our truths by 'what works,' aspiring to a democracy which supports coexistence of 'contradictory' truths, without resort to killing each other off, or appealing to a 'higher authority.' [av