WHAT DOES ‘PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS’ MEAN FOR PLATO?

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When I first began to investigate the idea of the “pursuit of happiness” I did not realize how far it would take me. My investigation first directed me to David Shavin’s article, Leibniz to Franklin On ‘Happiness’ (schillerinstitute.com), which reported on how Benjamin Franklin had discussed the Leibniz idea of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” a good ten years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

But subsequently, I discovered that this principle was meant to remedy the same flawed system of justice which had led to the crucifixion of Christ, to the burning of Jeanne d’Arc at the stake, and to the condemnations of Lyndon LaRouche for crimes he did not commit. That is when I realized that the “pursuit of happiness” had to involve a passionate Gethsemane moment because it implied the shock of an axiomatic change to unify mankind in the simultaneity of temporal eternity.

HOW LYNDON LAROUCHE’S WRITINGS PROVIDE US WITH THE SOLUTION TO THE PRESENT WORLD CRISIS IN THE SIMULTANEITY OF TEMPORAL ETERNITY

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What is required the most in world leadership today is a triply-connected quality of thinking, which includes, as President Xi Jinping of China stated: 1) the wisdom to see the coming change, 2) the ability to handle that change, and 3) the courage to see through the implementation of that change; that is, the human wisdom to make an axiomatic change in the simultaneity of temporal eternity.

TOWARD A NEW PEACE OF WESTPHALIA AND A GREAT FUTURE FOR HUMANITY

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Why is peace so difficult to achieve throughout the world? To a great degree, the reason peace is not achieved on Earth is because of ignorance and misunderstanding, because most people believe wrongly that war is a natural state of human affairs, and that, therefore, peace can only be a brief moment of respite between two wars. That form of ignorance and misunderstanding is a deadly failure in judgment.

The truth is that war is the result of an unresolved dissonance between two fundamentally different manifolds; that is, between the human manifold and the animal manifold; and the only way to discover the difference between the two is through creativity which induces love of mankind, that is, through understanding the difference between two other manifolds, between the human mind and God’s mind.

THE SINGULARITY OF A PALEONTOLOGICAL DISCOVERY AND THE PLATONIC DODECAHEDRON

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On Sunday, June 16, 2024, Prof. Mark Menamin, geologist and paleontologist from the Department of Geology at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Ma., presented to the Schiller Institute’s online seminar a fascinating connection between paleontology and the Platonic Solids, which appeared to me to be a crucial singularity between life and non-life, during the Proterozoic period of our Earth’s geological evolution, and which he identified as “THE NOT-SO-BORING BILLION: RODINA AND THE ORIGIN OF ANIMALS.

Professor Menamin showed that in a timeline between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago, during the Proterozoic era, there appeared to be not much going on just before the origin of animals on Earth. Well, surprise, surprise! The hexagonal pattern of Figure 2 which he presented to his audience is “thought to be made by an ancient animal that is still alive today, but nobody knows what that animal is.” 

My hypothesis is that this is an ancestor of the “dodecahedron,” which reflects the spherical ordering of the twelve well-tempered musical tones system including the six Lydian human voices register shifts.