Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Neville Buch

Re: Hermeneutics and that I had discovered the 12 Apostles with my answer to life!

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The number 42 is famously known as “the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything” in Douglas Adams’ science fiction series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. A supercomputer named Deep Thought computed this answer after 7.5 million years, though the question itself was never known, rendering the answer meaningless until the question was discovered. The number 42 has become a widely recognized cultural reference, symbolizing a search for meaning and has also been found in various mathematical and scientific contexts. BUT I SAY THE ANSWER IS “12”…

 

 

 

 

First rule of hermeneutics, philosophers interpret text from their opinion of their forebears; 

Second rule of hermeneutics, history is written in the prejudice of the present; 

Third rule of hermeneutics, the confused are confused rules 1 and 2.
I want PERSONS to know that the answer to the universe’s question is not “42”, as I was taught, but “12”: don’t go through life not knowing the answer is “12”:

 

 

  1. Jesus. Life as Poverty
  2. Hobbes. Life as Brutish and Nasty
  3. Descartes. Life as Reduced Self
  4. Hume. Life as Habit
  5. Rousseau. Life as Wonderful Natural
  6. Kant. Life as Intellectually Constructed
  7. Hegel. Life as Worldview (comprehensive)
  8. J.S. Mill. Life as Emerging Liberty
  9. Nietzsche. Life as Beyond Moralism
  10. Ferdinand Tönnies. Life as Gemeinschaft (connected)
  11. Heidegger. Life as Being
  12. Arendt. Life as vita contemplativa (praxis as the highest level of the vita activa)

 

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Neville Buch

Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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