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EAT BACON
“Bacon felt very strongly that one of the values of science was in its fruits, that it could do a great deal to lessen human suffering. As we know, it can also do other things of which we are painfully aware at the present time. As Bacon was never tired of saying, knowledge without love can be profoundly corrupt and even evil. He blamed philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, not only because they lacked the humility to study objective facts and base their reasoning upon those facts, but because they had pursued knowledge purely for the sake of intellectual satisfaction, not with the motive of love or in order to help human beings.”
-Aldous Huxley, The Human Situation (Santa Barbara lectures)
-Aldous Huxley, The Human Situation (Santa Barbara lectures)
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DEFINITION:
i·de·a
1.any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
2.
a thought, conception, or notion: That is an excellent idea.
3.
an impression: He gave me a general idea of how he plans to run the department.
4.
an opinion, view, or belief: His ideas on raising children are certainly strange.
5.
a plan of action; an intention: the idea of becoming an engineer.
6.
a groundless supposition; fantasy.
7.
Philosophy .
a concept developed by the mind.
a conception of what is desirable or ought to be; ideal.
c. Platonism . Also called form. an archetype or pattern of which the individual objects in any natural class are imperfect copies and from which they derive their being.
i·de·al
–noun
1.
a conception of something in its perfection.
2.
a standard of perfection or excellence.
3.
a person or thing conceived as embodying such a conception or conforming to such a standard, and taken as a model for imitation: Thomas Jefferson was his ideal.
4.
an ultimate object or aim of endeavor, especially one of high or noble character: He refuses to compromise any of his ideals.
5.
something that exists only in the imagination: To achieve the ideal is almost hopeless.
6.
Mathematics . a subring of a ring, any element of which when multiplied by any element of the ring results in an element of the subring.
–adjective
7.
conceived as constituting a standard of perfection or excellence: ideal beauty.
8.
regarded as perfect of its kind: an ideal spot for a home.
1.any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
2.
a thought, conception, or notion: That is an excellent idea.
3.
an impression: He gave me a general idea of how he plans to run the department.
4.
an opinion, view, or belief: His ideas on raising children are certainly strange.
5.
a plan of action; an intention: the idea of becoming an engineer.
6.
a groundless supposition; fantasy.
7.
Philosophy .
a concept developed by the mind.
a conception of what is desirable or ought to be; ideal.
c. Platonism . Also called form. an archetype or pattern of which the individual objects in any natural class are imperfect copies and from which they derive their being.
i·de·al
–noun
1.
a conception of something in its perfection.
2.
a standard of perfection or excellence.
3.
a person or thing conceived as embodying such a conception or conforming to such a standard, and taken as a model for imitation: Thomas Jefferson was his ideal.
4.
an ultimate object or aim of endeavor, especially one of high or noble character: He refuses to compromise any of his ideals.
5.
something that exists only in the imagination: To achieve the ideal is almost hopeless.
6.
Mathematics . a subring of a ring, any element of which when multiplied by any element of the ring results in an element of the subring.
–adjective
7.
conceived as constituting a standard of perfection or excellence: ideal beauty.
8.
regarded as perfect of its kind: an ideal spot for a home.
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