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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Famous quotes containing the word philosophy:
“There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leaving the world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)