The Plenitude of Arboreal Beauty

When Aeneas consults with the ghost of his father, Anchises, we find a passage heavily influenced by Neoplatonic thought. Anchises mentions “a celestial energy… slowed and dulled by mortal frames,” (VI 867) and warns that upon death “many corporeal taints remain, ingrained in the soul in myriad ways” (874). This is redolent of the Phaedo, [...]

Thomas Aquinas delivers a proof for the existence of God in which he first shows that there is something that necessarily exists, and then goes on to show that among the things that necessarily exist there must be something that derives its own necessity, and this “all men speak of as God.” The main objection [...]

Then the Master said, “I never enlighten anyone who has not been driven to distraction by trying to understand a difficulty or who has not got into a frenzy trying to put his ideas into words.”
Now the Master says, “I never enlighten anyone who has not tried Googling it first.”

My position on The Analects takes [...]

Wanting to re-familiarize myself with Objective-C, I wrote a mergesort method in an NSArray category:
- (NSArray*)mergeSortArrayUsingSelector:(SEL)comparator
{
  id buf[[self count]];
  [self getObjects:buf];
  mergesort_(buf, [self count], comparator);
  return [NSArray arrayWithObjects:buf count:[self count]];
}

An initial insight upon reading selections from The Bible:

God, Word, Light is the schema of creation found in Genesis I. At the very beginning there is a transcendent God, after which comes the Word, realized in the divine proclamation “let there be light.” Following the Word is Light, which is interpreted as light or existence [...]