PHILOSOPHERS' STONE.PART 69

We recall Isaac Newton here.The idea came when he was under the apple tree.He saw apple tree fall from the tree and thus began to ask himself,whether the moon was drawn to the earth with similar force.Perhaps,could be the reason for the moon's continuous orbit of the earth for eternity.To demonstrate few natural laws apply to the universe,he started with laws propounded by contemporaries and for the calculation of planetary orbits,he applied two natural laws that the Italian provided and proposed.First,the law of inertia,in which Cambridge scholar expressed: A body remains in its state of rest or rectilinear motion until it is compelled to change that state

by a force impressed on it"

PHILOSOPHERS' STONE.PART 66

Did you remember the ebulient Roger Bacon ?He was a laboratory scientist at Oxford,studied lenses and mirrors with great care.He was speculated to have probably be the first to deploy telescope for laboratory research including a burning glass,that was later ordered to be destroyed by university authority for students'distraction.We shall not fail to talk about Thomas Aquinas,a speculated translator,taught by his teacher Albert Magnus,also contributed immensely the christianisation of the converted works in mainstream European philosophy.Above all the medieval was an age tormented by double.No wo ndera French

PHILOSOPHERS'STONE.PART 44

The belief in the God Of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob later Israel,obviously show Semites had a linear view of history,to be capped by the history of judgemen t day and the rest.This played an important in the history of these western religion.With their strong emphasis that stress the importance of divine intervention,they were preocuppied for thousand of years,writting and rewritting the ever changing pattern and course of history.The most holy city of Jerusalem till date is a religious center for the three religions especially Christianity.The jews reached their peak,when the Jacob was changed to Israel and the twelve tribes.Around the year,1200 B.C.Moses received ten commandments from God on Mount Sinail and that was the time they were slaves in Egypt.They were later freed after a lot of stress.Before the advent of Greek Philosophy...........please refer to original part 44

PHILOSOPHERS' STONE.PART 107

.Now take this one too and remember the practice of  reason.when Hume says we can barely prove or perceive natural laws.To prove the absolute validity of these laws,he shows obviously that they are the laws of human cognition.He says that there two elements of knowledge sources of the world.The external reality that we barely before mental or sensory perception and it is the material of knowledge.Secondly,internal conditions such as perception of happening hurriedly or loose in time and space.They are processes conforming into the unbreakable law of causality to reveal the true form of knowledge.Reason operates beyond human capacity to comprehend but certainly reason and sensory perception cannot claim let alone prove the ex

istence of God.

PHILOSOPHERS' STONE.PART 112

They were also influenced by Jacob Bohme and being pantheists they experienced the notion of divine ego in nature.If Descartes and Hume had drawn a sharp contrast between ego and extended reality and kant too left a sharp contrast between cognitive ' i ' and nature itself,the emergent Romanticists crusaded that nature is nothing than one big 'i'.They also popularised the expression"world spirit or world soul.Schelling(1775-1854)a leading Romantic philosopher craved to unite mind and matter and that all of nature physical reality and human soul is the expression of one absolute or world spirit.He concluded that nature is visible and spirit invisible nature.Refer bac

k to the rest of the series.

PHILOSOPHERS' STONE.PART 119 B

He became a don in Heidelberg,the Center of national Romanticism,but first became an asistant professor in Jena.It was in 1818 when he was appointed a Professor in Berlin when the city was spiritual center of the movement and Europe.Prior to his death in 1831 by cholera, Hegelianism had become a household name in almost all German Universities.Though he united almost every idea of the movement but he was sharply critical of them too.This including Schelling,like other Romanticists who enthused that life deepest meaning lay in world spirit..

PHILOSOPHERS' STONE.PART 122

Remember in our real part 122 we discussed dialectics.Here is a reminder that this process he called dialectical process.When the Eleatics had proposed a claim,Hegel regarded the standpoint a thesis and then the rise of contradictory thought to oppose that claim,he called it negation.Herarclitus for instance and he was the negation of eleatic philosophy.Now the tension between these contradictory thoughts with the emergence of empedocles who argued both were partly right and partly wrong.The standpoint of the Empedocles was what he called negation of the negation.Then he called the three stages of dialectical process mainly thesis,antithesis and synthesis.For instance,Descartes'rationalism was contradicted by Hume's empirical antithesis.