Geoffrey Cantor is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Science & Technology Studies at University College, London. He has written extensively on the history of science since the 17th century, including books upon Michael Faraday, the wave theory of light and the responses of the Quaker and Jewish religions to science. With John Hedley Brooke he delivered the 1995–1996 Gifford Lecture at the University of Glasgow which was subsequently published as Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion in 1998.
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It would prove interesting and inspirational to learn the Rebbe's views on these modern day wisdoms and on their chief proponents' properties of righteousness.
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lives and synagogue homes. The spiritual wisdom descends from above and joins those in the real world to extend the divinity and joyful
bliss of the Lord's rest day. Some will say that Parmenides relies on the Pythagorean view of being and of eternal forms fixed and unchanging.
But Parmenides' goddess of the Proem is not a static literary device but a vibrant, active, dynamic, ever changing voice responsive to that which
is encountered and understood. She offers wisdom but provokes that wisdom is not a gift but requires active participation and rebukes those who
do not even offer consideration to it. Within the Proem is readily shown that wisdom completely fills the earthen realm. It has existence, breadth,
and height of dimension forming its body for all to observe and evaluate and then apply and use for life.
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My way of thinking may be different than others, but it allows me the intellect of the formation of this world, and coexists with the Torah.
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