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Have you ever met a “Philosopher in Residence” from a major health sciences centre? Probably not because this is the only one anywhere. Meet Sholom who holds that title at Toronto’s Baycrest Health Sciences, “a global leader in geriatric residential living, healthcare, research, innovation and education, with a special focus on brain health and aging.” (www.baycrest.org/about/our-story/)
I met him on the first day of a course I am taking through my lifelong learning program. He and I were the first ones in the classroom which gave me an opportunity to get acquainted and which included chatting about retirement. I explained that my Human Family photography project has been an important part of my retirement and he expressed interest. Of course I invited him to participate as a subject and we agreed to do a couple of photos outside the building at the end of class.
Sholom’s course is titled “A Patient’s History of Medicine” which reflects his strong interest in patient advocacy and in active patient involvement in medical treatment. The course outline follows the structure of his most recent book (not yet in print) by the same title. He is a fascinating person and a great teacher. As with all great teachers, he combines an organized presentation of stimulating material with a group discussion about the topic being covered.
A philosopher by training (he has a PhD from Cornell), he also has a strong background in planning. His current position is a somewhat serendipitous result of a funding collapse. Sholom was working as a planner for a new hospital wing in Montreal when, upon completion of the plan, the government funding dried up. The hospital CEO was so impressed by Sholom’s value that he insisted in keeping him on staff, but what would his new role be? Sholom suggested “How about Philosopher in Residence?” And so it came to pass that he carries that title, even though he and his wife have relocated to Toronto. His job covers a wide variety of activities within and outside the institution where he is responsible for teaching patient centered care to staff along with teaching duties at the University of Toronto.
Sholom describes himself as “semi-retired” but he must have a unique definition of “semi-retired” because to hear of his current activities leaves one breathless. His current book is his fourth one published, he does research on health policy, he is the founder of Patients Canada, a patient advocacy organization and he commutes regularly to England – not to mention the adult education course he is teaching at The Life Institute. He told me that he will be in Montreal later this week to deliver a lecture at McGill University. Does that sound like semi-retirement to you? You can read Sholom’s bio here: www.sholomglouberman.net/ and here: research.baycrest.org/sglouberman . You can access his blog on medical history here: healthandeverythingblog.wordpress.com/.
I can tell that this is going to be a fascinating course covering the history of medicine from prehistoric times to the present through the lens of the patient’s role in treatment. Despite his juggling of numerous activities, Sholom presents as a calm and thoughtful man and was sure to connect with me after class for the photo shoot outside the building on campus. He expressed interest in my background and noted that his wife is a therapist herself. I don’t know where he has found time for it, but he told me that he likes to paint which must serve as a form of relaxation as well as creative expression. I took photos in two nearby locations – one in front of the large boulders on campus (appropriate since today’s class was about prehistoric times) and another against the wall of the campus bookstore.
As I walked him toward the subway I asked if he had a message to share with the project and he said (with a smile) “Take charge.” His message probably had a more general meaning but it would also seem to apply to his views on our role as patients in our own health care.
Thank you Sholom for participating in my photography project. This is my 475th submission to The Human Family Group on Flickr.
Past this building many a time and always wanted to photograph it.
It's on private ground but I was granted permission to take these shots under the conditions I wouldn't be selling them. Hence the watermark......I've had images stolen in the past and used. But it's something I've never let worry me too much, if I was trying to make money out of this I would be a little more careful on the quality of the images I post and would put the watermark in a much harder place to clone out.
Any way back to the tower.......it belongs to the Earl of Shaftesbury family. It was thought the 3rd Earl was a philosopher and spent many a time thinking here.
I know I could ponder quite happily here watching the gorgeous sunrises.
( When we get them that is! )
Today, 25 November, is the feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria, who is the patroness of philosophers and preachers.
St. Catherine is believed to have been born in Alexandria of a noble family. Converted to Christianity through a vision, she denounced Maxentius for persecuting Christians. Fifty philosophers whom she is said to have converted by her eloquence were then burned to death by Maxentius.
Maxentius offered Catherine a royal marriage if she would deny the Faith. Her refusal landed her in prison. While in prison, and while Maxentius was away, Catherine converted Maxentius' wife and two hundred of his soldiers. He had them all put to death.
Finally, Catherine was likewise condemned to death. She was put on a spiked wheel, and when the wheel broke, she was beheaded.
She is depicted here, flanked by angels, in a splendid window by Edward Burne-Jones in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Welche Philosophen sind oben zu sehen? | Which philosophers are shown above?
Um das Rätsel zu knacken: Kommentare oder Tags lesen. | In order to crack the riddle: Read the comments or tags.
The Jefferson Memorial. He lived 1743-1826. He is remembered as the main writer of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President, 1801-9. He was a gentleman philosopher, an advocate of the scientific method, President for the American Philosophical Society and the Secretary of State for President Washington. He designed his own gracious classical style mansion, Monticello in the hills of Virginia his home state. He was a staunch advocate of liberty and democracy. He had a vision of America as an agrarian paradise and he favoured states rights- a big issue with Southern slave states. As President he is remembered most for this bargain basement purchase of the Louisiana Purchase (US$15) in 1803 which doubled the area of America by acquiring most of the lands west of the Mississippi River from France. He was also a state legislator in Virginia, a Governor of that state and the founder of the University of Virginia. Despite his “all men are equal” statement in the Declaration he was a slave owner. He married and had 6 children but only 2 daughters survived to adulthood. Recent research has shown that he had a 40 year affair with one of his slaves, Sally Hemmings after his wife died. He fathered 6 more children with her who were 7/8th white but still slaves. Jefferson freed all his Hemming-Jefferson offspring when they reached about 21 years of age. The rest of his slaves were freed after his death as dictated by his will. They were sold off to settle his debts.
This view ofPhilosopher Falls is the reward for the 90 min return walk. Depending on level of fitness and weather. This view is only made possible by the incredible efforts of our Wildlife and National Parks Teams.
Participant in a demonstration of migrants at the Frankfurt Hauptwache.
Ein Vertreter der Philosophie oder Religion von Zardoscht (persisch für Zarathustra). Bisher dachte ich bei Persien eher an Ajatollas. Scheint eine sehr menschenfreundliche Weltanschauung zu sein.
A representative of the philosophy or religion of Zardoscht (Persian for Zarathustra). Up to now I thought of Persia more like ayatollas. Seems to be a very philanthropic worldview.
Roman copies of Greek originals from the 2nd or 3rd century B.C.
Portrait busts of Greek Philosophers: Socrates; Antistheines; Chrysippos; Epikouros
British Museum, London, England
This photo was taken by a Kowa Super 66 medium format film camera with a KOWA 1:3.5/55 lens and Kowa L39•3C(UV) ø67 filter using Kodak Portra 800 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
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"Harry Potter E A Pedra Filosofal."
‘Harry Potter and the Philosophers' Stone, was the original UK. title.
It was changed to "Sorcerer's Stone."
Thanks to Missive Maven's info.
A modern bronze statue of David Hume, the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher by the sculptor Alexander ‘Sandy’ Stoddart completed in 1995. It sits beside High Court Building on the High Street of Edinburgh
David Hume - born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS (26 April 1711 OS) – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of radical philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
Hume's empiricist approach to philosophy places him with John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes as a British Empiricist. Beginning with his A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Against philosophical rationalists, Hume held that passion rather than reason governs human behaviour and argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge is ultimately founded solely in experience; Hume thus held that genuine knowledge must either be directly traceable to objects perceived in experience, or result from abstract reasoning about relations between ideas which are derived from experience, calling the rest "nothing but sophistry and illusion", a dichotomy later given the name Hume's fork.
In what is sometimes referred to as Hume's problem of induction, he argued that inductive reasoning, and belief in causality, cannot, ultimately, be justified rationally; our trust in causality and induction instead results from custom and mental habit, and are attributable to only the experience of "constant conjunction" rather than logic: for we can never, in experience, perceive that one event causes another, but only that the two are always conjoined, and to draw any inductive causal inferences from past experience first requires the presupposition that the future will be like the past, a presupposition which cannot be grounded in prior experience without already being presupposed. Hume's anti-teleological opposition to the argument for God's existence from design is generally regarded as the most intellectually significant such attempt to rebut the teleological argument prior to Darwin.
Hume was also a sentimentalist who held that ethics are based on emotion or sentiment rather than abstract moral principle, famously proclaiming that "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions". Some contemporary scholars view Hume's moral theory as a unique attempt to synthesize the modern sentimentalist moral tradition to which Hume belonged, with the virtue ethics tradition of ancient philosophy, with which Hume concurred in regarding traits of character, rather than acts or their consequences, as ultimately the proper objects of moral evaluation. Hume's moral theory maintained an early commitment to naturalistic explanations of moral phenomena, and is usually taken to have first clearly expounded the is–ought problem, or the idea that a statement of fact alone can never give rise to a normative conclusion of what ought to be done. Hume also influentially denied that humans have an actual conception of the self, positing that we experience only a bundle of sensations, and that the self is nothing more than this bundle of causally-connected perceptions. Hume's compatibilist theory of free will takes causal determinism as fully compatible with human freedom, and has proved extremely influential on subsequent moral philosophy.
While Hume was derailed in his attempts to start a university career by protests over his "atheism," and bemoaned that his literary debut, A Treatise of Human Nature 'fell dead-born from the press', Hume nevertheless found literary success in his lifetime as an essayist, and a career as a librarian at the University of Edinburgh. His tenure there, and the access to research materials it provided, ultimately resulted in Hume's writing the massive six-volume The History of England, which became a bestseller and the standard history of England in its day. Hume described his "love for literary fame" as his "ruling passion" and judged his two late works, the so-called "first" and "second" enquiries, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, respectively, as his greatest literary and philosophical achievements, asking his contemporaries to judge him on the merits of the later texts alone, rather than the more radical formulations of his early, youthful work, dismissing his philosophical debut as juvenilia: "A work which the Author had projected before he left College." Nevertheless, despite Hume's protestations, a general consensus exists today that Hume's strongest and most important arguments, and most philosophically distinctive doctrines, are found in the original form they take in the Treatise, begun when Hume was just 23 years old, and now regarded as one of the most important works in the history of Western philosophy.
Hume has proved extremely influential on subsequent Western thought, especially on utilitarianism, logical positivism, William James, Immanuel Kant, the philosophy of science, early analytic philosophy, cognitive science, theology and other movements and thinkers. Kant himself credited Hume as the spur to his philosophical thought who had awakened him from his "dogmatic slumbers". Contemporary philosophers have opined that "Hume, rivaled only by Darwin, has done the most to undermine in principle our confidence in arguments from design", that "No man has influenced the history of philosophy to a deeper or more disturbing degree", and that Hume's Treatise is "the founding document of Cognitive Science" and the "most important philosophical work written in English." Arthur Schopenhauer once declared that "there is more to be learned from each page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart and Schleiermacher taken together." Hume is thus widely regarded as a pivotal figure in the history of philosophical thought. [Wikipedia]
Statue outside former Leeds Post Office of Joseph Priestley showing the scientist as a slender aesthete, poised slightly contrapuncto, examining the contents of a small pestle and mortar in one hand, a magnifying glass in the other. This statue the gift of T. Walter Harding and emplaced in 1903, though made in 1899. The sculptor was Alfred Drury.
Joseph Priestley FRS ( 24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, Unitarian, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator and classical liberal political theorist. He published over 150 works, and conducted experiments in several areas of science.
Priestley is credited with his independent discovery of oxygen by the thermal decomposition of mercuric oxide, having isolated it in 1774. During his lifetime, Priestley's considerable scientific reputation rested on his invention of carbonated water, his writings on electricity, and his discovery of several "airs" (gases), the most famous being what Priestley dubbed "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen). Priestley's determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution eventually left him isolated within the scientific community.
Priestley's science was integral to his theology, and he consistently tried to fuse Enlightenment rationalism with Christian theism. In his metaphysical texts, Priestley attempted to combine theism, materialism, and determinism, a project that has been called "audacious and original". He believed that a proper understanding of the natural world would promote human progress and eventually bring about the Christian millennium.Priestley, who strongly believed in the free and open exchange of ideas, advocated toleration and equal rights for religious Dissenters, which also led him to help found Unitarianism in England. The controversial nature of Priestley's publications, combined with his outspoken support of the American Revolution and later the French Revolution,aroused public and governmental contempt; eventually forcing him to flee in 1791, first to London and then to the United States, after a mob burned down his Birmingham home and church. He spent his last ten years in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
A scholar and teacher throughout his life, Priestley made significant contributions to pedagogy, including the publication of a seminal work on English grammar and books on history; he prepared some of the most influential early timelines. The educational writings were among Priestley's most popular works. Arguably his metaphysical works, however, had the most lasting influence, as now considered primary sources for utilitarianism by philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Herbert Spencer.
Trafalger Square, London, England,
He's a really interesting guy. If you see him, stop for a chat.
Analog Olympus OM-2n Fomapan 400 200mm Zuiko lens
I like to imagine that he is an ancient philosopher who first came up with the pompadour, but it didn't catch on, and his contribution to hair fashion was lost to society until some intrepid world trekking trend-setter discovered his writings in an until-then undisturbed ruin and brought the style to the 1950's.
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