Brian Jones of the Week, 8/7/03
OK, it's been awhile. It's easy to get out of blogging but I spoke with a reader last night who I didn't even know I had (and who's going to force me to wear a suit in a few weeks), so I thought I'd better put up some content. So, without further ado, here's this week's Brian Jones.
I found this Brian Jones's site about a year ago and I visit it every now and then just to read it. His philosophy of agathism is thought-provoking, although I think I've turned it around in my mind a bit. He says,
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it's "The doctrine that all things tend towards ultimate good, as distinguished from optimism, which holds that all things are now for the best."
I don't know where all things are tending, but I take from it a sense that the small contributions to the good which I am capable of, will contribute to the ultimate good. This might seem obvious but I think it's easy to lose sight of. Hell, there might be a word for that, too, but nevertheless, Brian Jones, creator of agathism.com, you're our Brian Jones of the week!