Over at Starts with a Bang, Ethan made a very interesting post about diverging/converging series. Aside from the mathematical interest, philosophers understand the need for logic and thus, find a different sort of interest. From Bernard Lonergan’s Insight Chapter 1, Elements: A fourth step will be the discovery of the need of a higher viewpoint. [...]

“Just as the individual egoist puts further questions up to a point, but desists before reaching conclusions incompatible with his egoism, so also the group is prone to have a blind spot for the insights that reveal its well-being to be excessive or its usefulness at an end.” – Bernard Lonergan, Insight If that doesn’t [...]