tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19835303.post116627457212669941..comments2023-08-18T07:04:22.633-07:00Comments on Areté: A life of QualityLifewishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07133804300464048756noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19835303.post-1166380718273597522006-12-17T10:38:00.000-08:002006-12-17T10:38:00.000-08:00If there is no Alpha and Omega, no eternal conscio...<I>If there is no Alpha and Omega, no eternal consciousness, the question is moot whether an awesome life is worth living.</I><BR/><BR/>I'm not aware of any evidence that concepts of "worth" are hard-wired into the universe, so I can only respond that, as a purely subjective preference, I think an awesome life is a good thing. Going by his behaviour, I can only assume that Daniel felt the same way.<BR/><BR/><I>Do you truly believe the very memory of you will one day pass away?</I><BR/><BR/>A man is not dead while his name is spoken. By that definition, I expect to be fully dead within 150 years tops. I could probably change that, but only at the expense of things on which I place a higher value.<BR/><BR/><I>What was the buzz on campus about its giants of Philosophy; Wittgenstein, Russell, Moore, Lewis, Anscombe, etc.</I><BR/><BR/>I was a mathmo and mostly hung around with the mathmos, so instead we mostly heard stories of Littleton, Ramanujan, Dirac etc. Except for the ones that had endings along the lines of "and then he proved that the Prime Number Theorem follows from the Riemann Hypothesis", these tended not to be terribly inspiring, sadly.Lifewishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07133804300464048756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19835303.post-1166332320591653532006-12-16T21:12:00.000-08:002006-12-16T21:12:00.000-08:00Hi LWTerrible story. Sorry. This kind of senseless...Hi LW<BR/>Terrible story. Sorry. This kind of senseless tragedy is the hardest thing to explain for a believer.<BR/><BR/><I>What I do believe, though, is that he took the time he had and built an awesome life from it. I hope some day I can say the same. </I><BR/><BR/>This is almost a theistic comment I must say. If there is no Alpha and Omega, no eternal consciousness, the question is moot whether an awesome life is worth living. Do you truly believe the very memory of you will one day pass away?<BR/><BR/>Also, Cambridge has an awesome history. What was the buzz on campus about its giants of Philosophy; Wittgenstein, Russell, Moore, Lewis, Anscombe, etc.?Jim Jordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12456957270007304493noreply@blogger.com