reason – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Aristotle, Aristotle Was a Beggar for the Bottle

One interesting concept that I hadn’t really thought about until seeing mentions of it on the Internet is that of how science differs from reason. The two work in tandem, of course, but reason is an internalized process, while science … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Greek Philosophy, Philosophy, Religion, Science | Tagged adam and eve, aristotle, gospel of john, gravity, logos, plato, reason |

Plight of the Private Citizen

Thinking back to my earlier post about fictional societies that value reason above all things, I realized that there’s one Oz character for whom the same thing is true. This is Tititi-Hoochoo, the Great Jinjin and Private Citizen of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr | Tagged justice, reason, the gardener's boy of oz, the great jinjin, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tititi-hoochoo, zim greenleaf, zim greenleaf of oz |

Lands of Logic

We all know that Gulliver’s Travels is both an adventure story and a satire, but one thing that seems to confuse critics is how much we’re supposed to read into Gulliver’s worship of the Houyhnhnms. The Houyhnhnms are sentient horses … Continue reading →