Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau. I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.
The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. Ebook, Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche. Ebook, Parents and Children, by George Bernard Shaw. Ebook, Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche. Ebook, On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill. Ebook, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx. Ebook, Pragmatism, by William James. Ebook, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume. Ebook, Discourse on Method, by Rene Descartes. Philosophers' Imprint. The Unreal Universe | A Book on Perception, Physics and Philosophy. The Unreal Universe. Reality, as we sense it, is not quite real. The stars we see in the night sky, for instance, are not really there. They may have moved or even died by the time we get to see them. This unreality is due to the time it takes for light from the distant stars and galaxies to reach us. We know of this delay.
Even the sun that we know so well is already eight minutes old by the time we see it. What is surprising (and seldom highlighted) is that when it comes to sensing motion, we cannot back-calculate in the same kind of way as we can to correct for the delay in observation of the sun. Einstein chose to resolve the problem by treating perception as distorted and inventing new fundamental properties in the arena of physics - in the description of space and time.
Einstein instead redefined simultaneity by using the instants in time we detect the event. Special Relativity gives an unambiguous answer to this question. This disconnect is not uncommon in philosophical schools of thought. Information Philosopher - Creation. The Information Philosopher proposes to show that everything created since the origin of the universe over ten billion years ago has involved just two fundamental physical processes that combine to form the core of all creative processes. These two steps occur whenever even a single bit of new information is created and comes into the universe. Step 1: A quantum process - the "collapse of a wave function. " The formation of even a single bit of information that did not previously exist requires the equivalent of a "measurement.
" This "measurement" does not involve a "measurer," an experimenter or observer. This two-step core creative process underlies the formation of microscopic objects like atoms and molecules, as well as macroscopic objects like galaxies, stars, and planets. With the emergence of teleonomic (purposive) information in self-replicating systems, the same core process underlies all biological creation. Note there are three distinct kinds of emergence: