Natural Questions

There are a ton of gems in the text—mixed in amongst the folksy natural wisdom.

Intro

• 6 read everything critcally
• 14 we do science to understand God

Book 3

• 25 use the present moment as best we can
• 26 don't stop looking for better solutions
• 36 we have imperfect knowledge
• 36 diatribe against luxury
• 44 "her own finale" == telos
• 52 we need teachers to learn virtue (from them)
  • it's something we have to discover

Book 4

• 53 we should enjoy our own company
• 69 "taller people should warm more quickly" (haha)
• 70 nature tends towards more and more reason
  • wouldn't AI do the same thing?

Book 5

• 84 missuse of a tool doesn't make the tool bad
• 92 knowledge of nature is our true purpose

Book 6

• 112 death comes from many places
• 131 nature loves variety
• 135 we traded true progress for comfort

Book 1

• 137 Reason requires rising above human affairs
• 138 "What is God? The intelligence of the universe."
• 139 [God] controls from within and without

Book 2

• 178 diviniation: looking for patterns
• 180 de fatum
• 181 the conditional nature of Fate
• 182 Fate's many steps
• 184 the gods take no active interest in us
• 185 God is cause
• 192 we should be so lucky as to have a quick death

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