Philosophy Posters - Poster series explaining complex philosophical theories through basic shapes
In Pursuit of...Goodness Truth & Beauty
Recently, while working on an education paper, I played around with an infographic. This is still really more of a sketch or idea. I’ve attempted to overlay the theory of multiple intelligences and David Kolb’s theory of experiential learning. For friends in educational theory, what are your thoughts? Do you see a connection between the two systems?
My M.Div (Masters of Divinity) degree visualized. Inspiration drawn from the periodic table of elements and from the Adobe Creative Suite icon system.
I’m aware that the period table is often overused. However, rather than copying it outright, I’ve simply taken the basic idea and attempted to bring out the actual underlying structure of my degree (the organization and distribution of courses across a wide range of disciplines).
Learning from Color
“The best way I’ve found of understanding this is to think not so much of something ‘being’ a color but of it ‘doing’ a color. The atoms in a ripe tomato are busy shivering—or dancing or singing; the metaphors can be as joyful as the colors they describe—in such a way that when light falls on them they absorb most of the blue and yellow light and they reject the red—meaning paradoxically that the ‘red’ tomato is actually one that contains every wavelength except red. A week before, those atoms would have been doing a slightly different dance—absorbing the red light and rejecting the rest, to give the appearance of a green tomato instead.”
—Victoria Finlay, Preface of Color: A Natural History of the Palette
"Credible explanations grow from the combined testimony of 3 more or less independent, mutually reinforcing sources—explanatory theory, empirical evidence, and rejection of competing alternative explanations."
— Edward Tufte, Beautiful Evidence
A Primer on Goodness Truth & Beauty
In other words, why I think it’s such a big deal…
Goodness, truth, and beauty are more than merely three virtues. Nor is it enough to call them the chief virtues. They are more mysteriously and intimately intertwined than that. Goodness, truth, and beauty are not of course the same idea entirely—there is distinction to be sure—but neither can they every be truly separated. They are three facets of the same thing, three different ways of talking about the spring of all virtue. And the pursuit of any one must inevitably entail the others. Let me explain.
