[betty boop]

PING! If you're in the mood for this sort of thing, please let me hear from you!

[RightWhale]

There is some interesting material in the article, but I can't give it proper attention now. BTW, who is John Rawls' replacement?

[edwin hubble]

wonderful post.

Years ago a student asked me who first identified the Big Dipper. Of course it was the first proto-human who got up off of his or her knuckles and looked at the night sky. Well, certainly 50,000 years ago.
Astronomy is the first science.

[marron]

I have been reading you for months, and this piece pulls it all together into a single coherent whole. You needed to do this and I am well impressed with the outcome.

As a piece of philosophy it is rich, it is the kind of piece that needs to be read line by line and re-read the same way. You are dealing with subjects that I have been meditating on myself for a long time, but only on the most metaphorical level. It is a delight to see these issues articulated with precision and in their depth.

If only Voegelin could write as well and as clearly as you do, things would be so much easier for the rest of us...

This is worthy of a wider audience.

[Skooz]

Bump for later. Looks fascinating and I have the day off.

[unspun]

I may have to consider this "reference material." Thank you! There are numerous philosophical threads going (and one can only glance toward the sun briefly, as one keeps his eye on the ball --almost time for spring training).

[beckett]

Great food for the soul, BB. I've only made it halfway through, but I can already see you've worked hard to explicate new aspects of the core ideas you've defended so eloquently over the past few years in this forum.

Attila Grandpierre! There's a name to remember.

I just wanted to drop in a post to let you know I am reading it. Maybe if I have something to contribute, I'll post again when I've finished.

[sully777]

Nerd bump

[Stultis]

Sorry, I don't see it. Even though I've some interest in the bigger (and woolier) philosphical issues, it seems to me that cosmology has time and again made the greatest progress (eventually leading to progress on some of the bigger issues) by dealing with discrete/definable/soluable matters first and foremost; i.e. all those "mechanistic" matters you dismiss as secondary have, in fact, always led the way.

[Consort]

It still looks like cosmology....like everything else....might be exactly what we think it is, in the creative sense.

[escapefromboston]

ping for later.