In addition to being a fist class scientist André-Marie Ampère was also a first class philosopher, and especially an epistemologist of exceptional talent. Although he became famous for his groundbreaking work in electromagnetism, he has today remained virtually unknown as a philosopher. I will focus, here, on his less known work in epistemology ; that is, on the revolutionary method of investigating his classification of human knowledge, a method which he called “cautious probing” (tâtonnement) aimed at harmonizing interacting relationships between opposites, something similar to the coincidence of opposites in Nicholas of Cusa or the change of voice register in Bel Canto singing.
Author Archives: Pierre Beaudry
THE CAMPAIGN TO EXONERATE LYNDON LAROUCHE
“There is no one in the history of the United States to my knowledge, for whom there is a greater discrepancy between the image crafted by the neo-liberal establishment and the so-called mainstream media, through decades of slanders and covert operations of all kinds, and the actual reality of the person himself, than Lyndon LaRouche. And that is saying a lot in the wake of the more than two-year witch hunt against President Trump. The reason why the complete exoneration of Lyndon LaRouche is synonymous with the fate of the United States, lies both in the threat which his opponents pose to the very existence of the U.S.A. as a republic, and thus for the entire world, and also in the implications of his ideas for America’s future survival.” – Helga Zepp-LaRouche
THE LEGACY OF LYNDON LAROUCHE WITH AMPÈRE AND FRESNEL
For Lyndon LaRouche’s Memorial, June 8, 2019
My task, here, is to assure the legacy of Lyndon LaRouche’s ideas not merely by spreading his writings around the world, but more essentially, by assimilating his method of discovery in my own personal way and by replicating it for others as best I can. The question I am posing to myself, therefore, is: how can I use Lyndon LaRouche’s ideas as a beacon of light for orienting someone else’s mind in the direction of a discovery of principle which is applicable to both science and artistic composition?
THE LEGACY OF LYNDON LAROUCHE WITH AMPÈRE AND FRESNEL
FOUR FREEDOMS by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“[82] In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
[83] The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.
[84] The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.
[85] The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.
[86] The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.
[87] That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
[88] To that new order we oppose the greater conception – the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.
[89] Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged in change – in a perpetual peaceful revolution – a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions – without the concentration camp or the quick-lime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Four Freedom Speech, January 6, 1941
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, 1941 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS “THE FOUR FREEDOMS”
FRANÇOIS ARAGO’S GALACTIC ARC OF CREATIVE MENTATION
On April 25, 2019, our French website, Solidarité & Progrès, republished an important historical report on the crucial role that François Arago (1786-1853) played in the fight for republican scientific knowledge during the first half of the nineteenth century. The fight was in opposition to the Newtonian form of oligarchical reductionism which had been ravaging the European continent and the United Kingdom. As Lyndon LaRouche demonstrated many times over, such discoveries as those of Arago’s could have only been made through fundamental axiomatic changes by individual human minds.
The most significant contribution Arago made to the advancement of scientific knowledge was his polemical opposition to the Newtonian theory of light based on the emission of particles. It was Arago’s geometry and epistemology of universal motion which made the second generation of the Ecole Polytechnique students discover how the human mind makes scientific discoveries based on a new and more truthful theory of light.
