Chapter 02: The Paradox of Reality; The Unity of Matter and Ideal Substance

[Old – from Ch1-2] Chapter 2-2: Ancient Greeks and Early Alchemists V0.4

Sep 15, 2024

Technological innovations may have been developed by this time, but their conception was not seen as we do today. They were not created or understood by means of abstract thought, but through imaginative (creative, but exact) thought pictures…

Ancient Greek Insights

Sep 15, 2024

I am sad to say that I have chosen to completely rewrite my early drafts of prehistoric and Ancient Greek history almost in their entirety. They are to be replaced by two new and hopefully more relevant chapters. Their replacements concentrate on the possibly controversial Idea of Plato’s Philosopher…

[Old] Chapter 1-Part 4: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism: Plato & Aristotle – Matter & Substance

Sep 7, 2024

A draft version of a deprecated chapter about the later classical philosophers, including the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle and the Epicureans…

[Old] Rethinking Biological Transmutations – My Story so far…

May 28, 2020

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. I am getting bogged down with my first chapter. It largely covers Ancient Greek philosophical insights into many of the important matters that are to be explored in later chapters of this book. Every single one of these philosophers (at least the most significant figures up to and including Aristotle)…

[Old] Chapter 1 part 1 (version-0.2)

Apr 30, 2020

This deprecated draft chapter started as a historical review of chemistry in the West. This update interweaves its content with Rudolf Steiner’s Riddles of Philosophy. Also used is E.J. Dijksterhuis The Mechanization of the World Picture….