MAR 26 PT2

Top of Mind:

• Greek philosophy.

  • The closest understanding we have to the developmental mind.

  • Sourcing of western ideals — Socrates and Plato and Cicero.

• Wanting to do the work lately. Less second guessing.

• A reframing of perspective.

You left shoes to fill in my heart.

Many early American intellectuals and founders were influenced by Deism.

Deism is the belief that:

• A creator (God) exists

• The creator established natural laws that govern the universe

• God does not intervene in human affairs through miracles or revelation

• Reason and observation of nature — not scripture — are the primary ways to understand God

It emerged strongly during the Enlightenment (17th–18th centuries).

Think of the metaphor commonly used then:

God as the watchmaker who builds the universe, winds it up, and lets it run.