Archive for October, 2015
- The Morality of a $15 Minimum on October 20, 2015
From nature's asymmetry to the ethics of liberal democracy, by Paul Cornell du Houx
Unicycle, the new 6x9 edition
The observation that nature is asymmetric allows us to introduce reasoning that is as organized as the logic of symmetries currently in use, by using symmetry as a foil in a proof by contradiction.
One result is the discovery that nature, the universe, does indeed have a non-random sense of direction with fortunate ethical consequences and implications for political science and other fields of inquiry.
“Very scrupulously set out. It is extremely well written and beautifully literate.” -Dr. Diané Collinson, author of Plain English, Fifty Major Philosophers, Fifty Eastern Thinkers, coauthor of works including the Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers
“This book contains some serious mathematics – smart, thought-provoking, and engrossing.” -William H. Barker, PhD, Isaac Henry Wing Professor of Mathematics, Bowdoin College, coauthor of the textbook Continuous Symmetry: From Euclid to Klein
What the Farmer Told the Bard
Pagan runes encoded in a monument to the Bard? In a world where we become “cybertypes” by watching personalized chronicles, Shakespeare’s pagan gods emerge, as the planet slides into chaos in the grip of a media takeover, in a vast usurpation of human identity.
