Science and Philosophy

Fundamentalism may exist in a black-and-white world. But saying it's full of the logical thinkers, and those outside it are in a murky cloud of gray with no sense of justice, is giving it way too much credit. I know because I used logic, and I saw colors beyond my simplistic black-on-white battle...

It was Socrates who argued against the written word, for it was inferior to the ways of oral tradition. Thus it happened that his followers wrote his dialogues, in the same way that Zarathustra’s followers wrote what he established as the sacred ritual of oral teaching from one generation to the next. Socrates told...