Dear Visitor, Nov. 13th 2008 with a full moon..
Coming back to Capri from a few days in Rome it is my very great pleasure to tell you that my excellent webmaster, Peter Ohgami, has made a new section in our website for the Philosophical Park, using a map that was done with very modern space measures by my friend Harald von Knorring. You will find it in the website, under “Visit the park” and then “Take a walk in the park”, or, simply, I hope, by clicking the line below: . http://www.philosophicalpark.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=10
If you do not know the Park before, let me give you three of the many comments by those who have visited the Philosophical Park in the autumn plus one from an authoritative tourist journal:
“La Pace ed il Panorama sono incantevoli. Grazie per averlo realizatato.” (The Peace and the Panorama are enchanting. Thanks for having realized them.) Delio Angelo (?) ******* Elisabetta, Ilse, Karin + Siggi ask, in German, “Weisst Du wo der Himmel ist? Aussen oder innen? Flieg doch mal nach Capri hin, da bist Du mitten drinnen. ******* “Thank you for this wonderful idea! I hope future generations can appreciate this effort and the person who helped you in the realization of this project. I’m a BAHA’I and I think the future will be better when persons like you contribute to a better future for mankind.” Jean France Matterin (Fr) (?) ******* And in DOVE, a leading cultural monthly in Italy, of August 2008, a special number of the “Grandi mari d’Italia” we find that it’s reporters also have walked “la passeggiata della Migliara con il singolare Parco Filosofico, creato dallo svedese Gunnar Adler-Karlsson e dalla moglie Marianne, dedicato alla meditazione. Tra ulivi, lentischi e mirti spuntano piastrelle di maiolica con i motti di celebri filosofi del passato.”
Only a few meters further on “il sentiero della Migliara conduce al Belvedere del Tuono, uno dei panorami più struggenti al mondo”, (one of the most forceful panoramas of the world) “uno strapiombo da vertigine, aperto da un lato su Punte Carena con il faro, dall’altro sui Faraglioni e davanti mare a perdita d’occhio.”
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Nov. 9th 2008. At the end of May I was hopeful enough to believe that my new book, on The Biological Origin of Evil, would be published in October. Now, in early November, both this English and a Swedish edition, Ondskans biologiska ursprung, are at the printers. Hopefully, they will be available on the market in the first week of December. In 2008.
The English version of the book was sent to the editor of the publisher, Bokförlaget Arena in Malmö, Sweden, already in May. The Swedish one, translated by myself, in August.
On the first page of the first chapter, I contrasted a world view of Ingmar Bergman with that of Paul Krugman. I claimed that the former was wiser than the latter. But, to my great pleasure, Krugman is considered wise enough to be given the so-called Nobel Prize in economics. It happened on the 13th of October. Ingmar Bergman, however, was, for me, still wiser!
In chapter III:7 of the book, on Imperialism – the scaring side, I had some questions about an extremely cynical attitude of Alan Greenspan, the head of the American Central Bank, in the U.S. called the Federal Reserve. As long as the economy was swelling, he was considered a fabulously wise guru. I had my doubts.
Now, in the financial disaster taken place, it amuses me to see that he has to bow down to reality. On the first page of the International Herald Tribune on the 24th of October Greenspan even had to admit his “fallibility”, but tried, in vain, to excuse himself by saying he could not have foreseen a “once-in-a-century credit tsunami.”
Well, well, those who read my two meditations in the beginning of this year, on the wisdom of the economic science, might possibly have done so. Any common sense should have realized that the creation of “derivative”-scraps-of-papers to a value which was about ten times that of the GWP, the gross world product, was bound to explode.
I am not alone in being sceptic to the economists. If you want to read why, have a look at the views of a French natural scientist, Jean-Philippe Bouchard, writing in what is arguably the world’s leading scientific weekly, Science, on October 30th 2008, p. 1181, suggesting that "Economics needs a scientific revolution.”
If you are interested in my book, in English or Swedish, (turn to Amazon in the first week of December, I hope) or drop me a line. For the next three months the best address is to: Norrtullsgatan 55, SE-113 45 Stockholm, Sweden. Capri November 9th 2008. Yours Gunnar **************************** Gunnar Adler-Karlsson, Prof. V.I. Box 79, IT-80071 Anacapri, Italy adler.karlsson@capri.it www.philosophicalpark.org
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