Stupendous Story of Us Rollings Trevor
Stupendous Story of Us Rollings Trevor , Where do we come from? Where are we going? What are we? He knew he was pushing the limits of human knowledge by asking them. These questions form the title of…
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, Where do we come from? Where are we going? What are we?
He knew he was pushing the limits of human knowledge by asking them. These questions form the title of an 1897 painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin. He also knew they are not new questions.
Our ancestors began to ask them on the African savannah. The Roman poet Lucretius posed them in his long poem On the Nature of Things, written just before the Christian era. He sought natural explanations for the behaviour of matter, without recourse to gods.
But he also knew that the world we see is largely a creation of our mind.Since then, science has answered most of his 'how' questions, almost to the point of offering us a 'Theory of Everything'. But Gauguin's 'why' questions remain largely unanswered. They require a personal response from us, without which, as Lucretius intuited, nothing can be joyous or lovely.In The