Joshua Fost http://joshuafost.com/blog Thoughts on (mostly) Philosophy, Education, and Neuroscience Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:25:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1
Malcontent’s gambit http://joshuafost.com/blog/2013/03/19/malcontents-gambit/ http://joshuafost.com/blog/2013/03/19/malcontents-gambit/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:19:37 +0000 jwfost http://joshuafost.com/blog/2013/03/19/ Listen to Alan Litchfield interview me for his superb podcast, The Malcontent’s Gambit, as we talk about beauty, neuroscience, and my first book.

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]]> http://joshuafost.com/blog/2012/02/15/quadrants-of-value/feed/ 1 Against Teleology http://joshuafost.com/blog/2012/02/13/against-teleology/ http://joshuafost.com/blog/2012/02/13/against-teleology/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:15:23 +0000 jwfost http://joshuafost.com/blog/2012/02/13/ To those who save nature for future generations, Cut trails and parks for Sunday hikes; To others who think of growth and economic applications, Of medicines, and minerals, and mufflers for motorbikes:

The oceans and forests are not for anything, The universe is not here so that. Its silent and raucous grandeurs encompass everything, While . . . → Read More: Against Teleology]]> To those who save nature for future generations,
Cut trails and parks for Sunday hikes;
To others who think of growth and economic applications,
Of medicines, and minerals, and mufflers for motorbikes:

The oceans and forests are not for anything,
The universe is not here so that.
Its silent and raucous grandeurs encompass everything,
While we sit in absorbed and smug satisfaction, indolent and fat.

The turns of the world have their own private meaning,
They have no obligation to human thought,
The swallow, the brook, the tree o’er-leaning,
Are poems the people were told—but listened not.

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