Make sure you Visit during F.O.O.D. Week (late Mar, April each year) | Orange Wine Week (October each year)
The Orange Town and Around Website
Our Thanks....... please mention the Orange-nsw website when you contact the businesses/organisations below.
ORANGE...."COLOUR CITY"
Accommodation choices in the Orange and surrounding areas.
Things to Do and See whilst in Orange and Central West NSW.
Site by Webthingys
Efficient, affordable web sites & Town Sites
Can't find what you're looking for ?
Try the Search box>
Philo Orange Convenor: Derek Maitland
Philosophy in Orange
Philo Orange Discussion Group
From the time of the Greek scholars -- Socrates, Plato and Aristotle – more than 2,600 years ago –mankind has been on a never-ending quest to find answers to the most vital, fundamental questions of our lives.
Questions about the universe – what is it, and, more importantly, why does it exist?
Questions about our planet, our world, and the phenomenal, almost unimaginable way in which it has created life. And again: why?
Questions about us, about human existence. Who are we? What are we? How do we think? Why do we think? Are we simply part of the universal physical matter, or do our minds make us independent of it?
Are our minds, our thoughts and ideals, independent of our physical bodies? And what is mind, anyway, and for that matter, what is matter?
Is the world of matter about us the sole reality – or is there another, more conceptual, more metaphysical and relatively imperishable reality in which our thoughts, ideals and dreams reside?
All these vital questions and issues are discussed and debated at Philo Orange – Philosophy in Orange. But we’re not an academic group. We’re ordinary people with a passion for the issues that philosophy as a “science of the soul” raises, and we make sure that our topics are applied philosophy – the wisdom and speculation of great thinkers applied to the ordinary “kitchen sink” issues that we encounter in our everyday lives.
Come join us. Join the great debate at Philo Orange. We meet at 6.30pm every second Wednesday at the HAAC Centre, 286 Lords Place, and everyone who seeks wisdom or just new perceptions is welcome.
For details, call Derek Maitland, the Philo Orange convenor on
6369 1787
0406 316 612
or email us
"I think, therefore I am."
Rene Descartes, 1596-1650
As the French philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) famously declared:
“I think, therefore I am.”
February 27th 2011
