Gerard Bodifée (°1946, Belgium) holds a PhD in science from the University of Brussels. He specialised in astrophysics, conducting scientific research into the origin of stars and the evolution of galaxies.
His interest is primarily focused on the fundamental scientific and philosophical questions of man. What is the origin and goal of existence? What is the position of man in the whole of reality? What is the relationship between science and religion?
After a career in industry and education, Bodifée became director of the National Planetarium of Belgium. Since then he has concentrated on writing and lecturing in Belgium and abroad. He founded the ‘House for Philosophy’, and teaches about the foundations of our culture in Greece, linking the origins of philosophy to modern science. He has published some twenty books, venturing into the field where science, philosophy and religion overlap.
Picture courtesy by Gerard Bodifée.
Gerard Bodifée
Posted on 11 Jan 2006 10:57
The Good, the True and the Beautiful
۞ In this interview astrophysicist and philosopher Gerard Bodifée (Belgium) talks about the Good, the True and the Beautiful.
- Would you agree that the Good, the True and the Beautiful are a recurrent theme in your work?
- How did you develop from being a scientist to someone who is interested in aesthetics and morals?
- Would you agree that there is a phenomenon in our society that everything is reduced to the scientific? (1st part)
- Would you agree that there is a phenomenon in our society that everything is reduced to the scientific? (2nd part)
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Gerard Bodifée
Posted on 01 Mar 2006 16:47
Reaching for Omega
۞ We continue our talk with Gerard Bodifée on the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. This time we talked about Teilhard de Chardin and his grand vision.
- Teilhard de Chardin can only be understood within a religious framework, not a scientific one, is this right? (part one)
- Teilhard de Chardin can only be understood within a religious framework, not a scientific one, is this right? (part two)
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Gerard Bodifée
Posted on 19 Mar 2006 08:58
The Fullness of Being
۞ Gerard Bodifée points to the Greatness and Smallness of our human existence in this interview.
- Is the Fullness of Being a triangulation of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful?
- Could we say that we are halfway between the Beasts and the Gods?
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Gerard Bodifée
Posted on 07 May 2006 08:24
The Practical Path
۞ Gerard Bodifée talks about some of the practical paths we can take towards a Full Existence.
- Do you think there is a practical path to this Full Existence?
- Should we take practical steps towards integrating science and religion?
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Gerard Bodifée
Posted on 10 May 2006 18:54
Making Meaning
۞ Gerard Bodifée talks about humans as meaning making beings.
- Do we as human beings find meaning in the cosmos by taking a religious approach to it?
- The Now is eternal. Is that right?
- Science often denies that the Kosmos has brought us forth as meaning-making beings. The fact that we are able to do this emerges from the very cosmos that they are studying. Is that right?
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