Philosophy Perspective Novels & Stories

"The book needs all the relationships. The accumulation is not just the accumulation of things in places. It is the accumulation of ways of seeing. The book has to hold all of them." "Then Istanbul is the piece that opens the argument up," Ernest said. "The estate piece established the insider's view. Norway and Greece established different kinds of outsider views. Istanbul will introduce the question of perspective itself — the fact that every view is a view from somewhere, that there is no view from nowhere, that even the attempt to understand the inside view is itself an outside view with its own limitations and its own affordances."

Greg pursed his lips in discomfort. Did Hank just happen to have a few screws loose today? Is that why he was looking forward to being sick? Considering what Hank had just said, he began, "Sir, I must apologize that I've actually noticed a fresh perspective thanks to what you just said. If anything, I think it kind of makes sense as there may be phenomena that can never be explained by science—metaphysics, as one would put it." Hank nodded in agreement. "That's the case for the world itself—everyone only sees what they each want to see, remaining ignorant of that which they have not seen before."

Not because it was funny, but because it was monstrous. The philosophy itself revealed the crime. If identity was merely perception, then altering perception became acceptable, convenient and justifiable. The logic disgusted me. I turned another page. Then stopped abruptly. My pulse jumped. "What?" Adrian's voice was quiet. I stared at the notebook. At a single paragraph. At a sentence that seemed to leap from the page.

"You understand that means—" "It means we find third option. The one nobody has considered because everyone is trapped thinking within cosmic law's framework." We turned to face her fully. "You descended to mortality. You chose to give up cosmic perspective. Why?" "Because cosmic perspective was—lonely. Cold. Incomplete." "Exactly. Cosmic entities see in absolutes. Binary choices. Containment or destruction. Order or chaos. But mortals—we see in possibilities. In maybes. In the spaces between extremes where actual solutions live."

He just read it, but he was not able to place it back just yet. Removing his glasses, he looked outside the windown of his office thoughtfully, with a small smile on his face. It seemed like it was about to rain soon. Shaking his head with the smile still present on his face, he wore his glasses back again and his eyes again went to the same concluding paragraph of her essay. ' Every person has their own philisophy of life. I don't know what my philosophy of Life is... That's what I would have said a month ago or so.