Spinoza was one of the so-called continental rationalists, along with Descartes, Leibniz and others less often read today. As suggested by Einstein at left, he had a distinctly nontraditional view of God, which got him in a great deal of …
Tag: Descartes
France Will Lead the World In Clean Energy
I’ve often said that I expect France to lead the way in terms of the adoption of clean energy, for two main reasons: 1) They’re self-styled; they don’t ask permission; they just do what they think is right. They refer …
Riddles of Matter, Energy, Space, and Time
I remember the first evening of a course in existentialism I had 37 years ago this fall, in which I asked the professor, “According to (Nobel prize-winner and existentialist superstar) Albert Camus, ‘suicide is the only valid philosophical question,’ implying …
Tagged with: Albert Camus, Brian Greene, Descartes, energy, Existentialism, Socrates, superstring theory, TED Talks, The Fabric of the Cosmos
