Philosophy
Philosophical concepts abound in these works. On one level this is a story of the journey that the protagonist takes through the galaxy and his many adventures on the way. However, there is a much, much deeper level at play. The whole work essentially asks the question 'what is a Human being?' and Danlo's journey is an exploration of how that question might be answered. Part of this exploration revolves around the question of 'what is the difference between a Man and a god or even God?' As the story unfolds the story also explores concepts such as meaning and purpose in life and evaluates questions of morality and religion.
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“And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term “unconditional surrender.” ... The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech—in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)