(Answer at the end).
FOCUS
By Charles Kocian
After a five-set and near five-hour epic match finally Alcaraz won Wimbledon over Djokovic. The match was more a battle of the mind as it was of the body. Djokovic recognized Alcaraz great “mental resilience” although he is only 20 years old. He has been labelled as a mix of Nadal, Federer and Djokovic himself, who said “I think he’s got basically best of all three worlds. He’s got this mental resilience and really maturity for someone who is 20 years old. It’s quite impressive.”
Leonardo da Vinci Vitrubian Man.
In the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci’s family, focus their attention in its son early artistic talents. They moved to Florence in 1460 and Leonardo became a student of Andrea del Verrocchio, the leading Florentine painter and sculptor. In his workshop he received a theoretical and technical training for seven years, not only in drawing, painting, sculpting, and modelling, but also, he studied chemistry, metallurgy, mechanics and woodwork among others.
Delivery of the Keys, by Perugino.
Famous artists like Ghirlandaio, Perugino and Botticelli were Leonardo classmates in the Platonic Academy of the Medici. The Medici Family was focused to rescue Greek knowledge and values, so they ruled Florence with laws the merge art and science. For instance, the painter Piero della Francesca did a scientific study of light and a treaty on perspective, the kind of draw that represents a three-dimensional physical space in a two-dimensional space, like paper. The vanishing point, in the perspective space, is the one point were all lines met. This was not present in the Euclidean space, centuries before.
Detail of Euclid teaching its students in The School of Athens Raphael School of Athens painting.
The Euclidean space is the representation of the real physical space in a draw, in a piece of paper. This was invented by Euclid, a Greek mathematician who is the “father of geometry”. In his Elements treatise he explained the foundations of geometry still used today. He was influenced by Pythagoras and Thales of Miletus ideas and his treaty influenced Copernicus, Galileo and Newton. He died in 270 BC in Egypt, Alexandria, the city founded by Alexander the Great who study with Aristotle.
A 1875 book of the Elements of Euclid.
CONCLUSION
In the last post we concluded that man’s Telos is to reason properly, and we defined reason as man’s faculty to identify and integrate the material provided by its senses. A baby’s senses can perceive differences between things, but his sensory perception do it automatically. Like any other animal, before talking, a child knows the difference between a tree and an apple. But when the child begins to talk, he needs to use words, concepts, and here is where the problem of humankind begins, with its words, with its concepts. So, to make the decision to use or not to use our conceptual faculty, properly, is the main decision, the mother and father of all decisions that makes mind liberty possible. How can we see without light?
So, to use concepts properly is the first and, necessary, decision that can bring light to use reason properly. It is the main decision that make the rest available, because, how can we decide with a mind in darkness or confusion? Without that first decision no differences are graspable. For instance, how can man know if God exist in the Objective-Physical-Space or the Subjective-Imaginary-Space? Do we understand the difference? The fact is that every child perceives the physical space with its senses first, and later learn to speak. His words should represent its sensory perceptions, otherwise, the objective physical space, where his body exists, will be in contradiction with its subjective imaginary space, where his mind exists. This cognitive dissonance will increase its anxiety and, therefore, its self-deception to evade reality. Bad news if this is the psycological diagnosis of the mind of the law-makers, main stream media and universities academics.
Now answer to question 60.
QUESTION N° 60
Why focus your mind allows you to choose well?
a) Because it does not produce sharpness.
b) Because it produces contrast.
The answer is: b) Because it produces contrast. Focusing your mind is similar to focus the lens of a camera to get a clear image. It allows you to differentiate clear options to choose well, which means: freedom, success and happiness.
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