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Thursday, January 16, 2003


The Voynich Manuscript. "The Voynich MS is a book or "codex" which counted at least 116 parchment folios, of which 104 remain. The folio size is 6 by 9 inches, but some folios are two or three times that size and are folded to fit in the book. There is one large composite of six times this size (18 by 18 inches). The MS is written in an elegant, but otherwise unknown script and almost all pages of the MS contain illustrations. It is about 1.5 inches thick and has a blank limp vellum cover that does not contain any indication of age, authorship or origin."

GeoURL ICBM Address Server. Am I far away or really close? Find my neighbors here.

Ethical Philosophy Selector. I'm not sure if I agree with its results. I believe morality is an artificial construct, a set of rules, which someone invented because he (or they) needed to protect himself from others who were stronger. There's no evidence that morality came from God. Pleasure and happiness have nothing to do with morality--they are simply terms for emotions and basic animal desires.

1. Aquinas (100%)
2. Mill (99%)
3. Plato (99%)
4. Aristotle (93%)
5. Augustine (88%)
6. Sartre (88%)
7. Bentham (87%)
8. Cynics (72%)
9. Hume (72%)
10. Rand (71%)
11. Spinoza (68%)
12. Kant (66%)
13. Hobbes (51%)
14. Nietzsche (51%)
15. Noddings (50%)
16. Ockham (46%)
17. Epicureans (41%)
18. Prescriptivism (39%)
19. Stoics (34%)


[posted by S. Y. Affolee on 6:39 AM : ]



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