We sang the songs of childhood Hymns of faith that made us strong Ones that Mother Maybelle taught us Hear the angels sing alongi – Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Roy Acuff’s lyrical adaptation For the duration of the classical period, the Greek philosophers were able to retain a marvelous appreciation for the bare fact of existence. Why is there something instead of nothing? Plato famously said that philosophy was born of wonder. Further, why is it that when we look about there’s all these things? How do they come to be? The Greeks pretty much assumed some sort of primordial chaos (they were really not able to conceive of creation from nothing, a staple of the cosmology of the Abrahamic faiths). But chaos never remained chaos. It was mysteriously propelled toward order. A particular order might decay, and we might refer to that as chaos (a political society that devolves into civil war between competing warlords, for instance), but it’s never full chaos. The Greeks could theorize full chaos, it would be right next door to non-existence, but we never really encounter it. It is a universe of things, not of chaos. Systems form (galaxies, solar systems, organisms, social systems). As we might say, complexity evolves.
"In addition to other things a city will afford us, it allows us to reason with one another about Justice. We will have to collectively decide how we are going to live together."
It seems to me this opportunity / necessity is already at the core of any group life.... of any life...
"In addition to other things a city will afford us, it allows us to reason with one another about Justice. We will have to collectively decide how we are going to live together."
It seems to me this opportunity / necessity is already at the core of any group life.... of any life...
Here is a relevant article on the same topic in the philosophy of science:
https://www.generativescience.org/papers/nature/Lamont-Science%20Worldviews%20and%20Education_2009-213-236.pdf