Category: Story

This is my chance to share a personal insight. It is about me. There is a therapeutic value to blogging. And that’s a good thing.

Hobbes and Locke

Below is the text I wrote in Facebook. I don’t have enough readers there and I need to show in Gevluef what is going on with me. I think something negative about Thomas Hobbes. I wrote:

Thomas Hobbes’s Philosophy, mostly political, has a social contract theory: He introduced a social contract theory based on the relation between the absolute sovereign and the civil society. (RT)

I’m reading his book: Leviathan. Some of his critics argue with him over the “Squaring of the Circle.”

His “sovereign” is preceded by a great work of some kind. The unfolding drama is a “Story”

Thomas Hobbes is still a service. Thomas Hobbes’s great trilogy; Three Something: De Corpore (1655; “Concerning Body”), De Homine (1658; “Concerning Man”), De Cive (1642; “Concerning the Citizen”)

An older post about Thomas Hobbes: https://gevluef.com/2009/02/20/thomas-hobbes/

The accepted philosophy for his time is John Locke. He wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Locke wrote so much there that I need help with it. For example I think John Locke is writing for Pi in this text: https://enlightenment.supersaturated.com/johnlocke/BOOKIIIChapterIII.html See paragraph 6: How general words are made. …How come we, by general terms?

John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is the best choice for Philosophy from this time. Of the two philosophers John Locke would make a better choice of study.

Google for Pi – Highlights

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What is the formula for calculating pi? The pi is a ratio and is obtained from a circle. If the diameter and the circumference of a circle are known, the value of pi will be as π = Circumference/ Diameter.

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The miraculous fact about Pi is that no matter the size of the circle, the value does not change, making Pi a mathematical constant. Adding to its allure, Pi is also an irrational number which means that its decimal representation has no end and no repeating pattern.

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Pi shows that knowing, wholly, is an impossibility. The more we know, the more apparent it is that there is much more to know. For each individual, and for humanity as a whole, there is always that added bit that simply can’t be figured out, no matter how much information or education we possess.

Gravity’s Rainbow

I got the book cover picture from The Thomas Pynchon web site: https://thomaspynchon.com/

In the News:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, has acquired Pynchon’s literary archive.

This article is dated December 14th, 2022: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/arts/thomas-pynchon-huntington-archive.html

This article is dated November 26th, 2023: https://www.pasadenanow.com/weekendr/thomas-pynchons-gravitys-rainbow-at-50-a-literary-journey-unveiled/

Although I am expected to get Gravity’s Rainbow, I am getting Vineland; July 4th 2024. It is the plan for the Napa Valley Wine Vintage for 2024.

Politics My Vote

I’m going to Vote for someone who can change the money back to the pre-1997 design. For functioning Capitalism, the president has to be in the middle of the bill; like the one dollar.

It can still be done even though they say they have to make room for the watermark. I don’t buy that excuse. I mean to fix the government the watermark isn’t that important. I’ve seen the watermarks they are way over to the right side. There is ample room for the President.

For a good government, let’s use the old money design to make our currency fair again!

Note: Rhinoplasty and Capitalism