http://dickdeshaw.com By Dick DeShaw, MA, ABD Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:55:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome Internet Neighbours! Why am I writing & producing the graphic essay, ‘Bud The Brain?’ Inquiries, criticisms & discussions not only welcome but encouraged! Baruch de Spinoza says the duty of a philosopher is to 1) Taste union with nature 2) Produce true ideas in himself 3) Makes these ideas known to his neighbours *This is a paraphrase ... http://dickdeshaw.com/preface-to-bud-the-brain/ http://dickdeshaw.com/bud-the-brain-p-83-96/ http://dickdeshaw.com/bud-the-brain-p-19-36/ http://dickdeshaw.com/bud-the-brain-p-62-80/       Here's the Comment from Noveseidue, submitted on 2010/06/04 at 2:30pm -      As Spinoza says, ” …science which does not consist in convictions based on reasons but in immediate union with the thing itself…” This means only that the foundation of science is based upon an immediate union and not upon ... http://dickdeshaw.com/reply-to-noveseidue-long-ovedue/ http://dickdeshaw.com/bud-the-brain-pages-48-37/ http://dickdeshaw.com/418/ As I get older, I find the energy which the universe has given me to do my work has become very narrow in its focus as I face its liberation back into the universe.     Everything I do today seems to focus on researching scholars which the universe has sent my ... http://dickdeshaw.com/letter-to-a-friend/ Hi, Owen. I think it's wonderful that you are discussing philosophy in highschool. I didn't discover philosophy until my third year in university.  When I did - the heavens opened.   While I originally spent much time in existentialist thought (and certainly experienced, 'angst,') I am presently focused on Baruch Spinoza, ... http://dickdeshaw.com/park-presentation-reply-to-owen/ http://dickdeshaw.com/234/