
The Book Club: Carlo Rovelli
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What Is It Everything Made From?
Thomas is one of the seven wise men, according to the Greek tradition. He and his axi-mander are linked by their search for a fundamental principle on which everything follows. Thomas started saying that we have this variety of objects around us but could there be a unifying substance entity out of which anything is sort of transformation in some form? The core of what philosophy is all about is taking inspiration from others' thinking - so critical thinking as the first spark of making knowledge grow.
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